On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2020-11-09 07:08, Michael Paquier wrote: > The @ is the standard way of representing this in the user interface and the > configuration, so it seems sensible to me that way.
Ok. > Can you sketch how you would structure this? I realize it's not very > elegant, but I couldn't come up with a better way that didn't involve having > to duplicate some of the error messages into multiple branches. I think that I would use a StringInfo to build each sentence of the hint separately. The first sentence, "Is another postmaster already running on port %d?" is already known. Then the second sentence could be built depending on the two other conditions. FWIW, I think that it is confusing to mention in the hint to remove a socket file that cannot be removed. -- Michael
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