On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Well, I'm actually not proposing to print "maximum detail", and Fabien > is complaining about that, which makes me think maybe I've hit a happy > medium ;-). In particular, the proposed patches won't change behavior > for cases where you just give one hostname or hostaddr, and I'd argue > that that is the only case where we really have enough track record to > be sure that people are happy with the amount of detail provided. > As soon as you have multiple target hosts, though, the current code's > behavior is inadequate IMO.
I'm not entirely convinced; see the example I posted before. > Indisputably it's inconsistent, because > some code paths will concatenate error messages and some won't, without > any rhyme or reason that I can detect. I think the only reason we've > not had more complaints is that hardly anyone is using this feature yet. I agree that inconsistency is bad as a rule. :-) -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
