Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Do we have enough time to test the patch before the minor releases? Sure, it's not like it raises any portability issues. As long as it gives a better error message than before in some common cases, it'll be a step forward, even if we think of further improvements later.

Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2006-01-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No objections here but since I don't use a foreign lang I figure my vote > > doesn't really matter. I was wondering though if it would be resonable to > > try > > and get some language updates into the patch release? > > With the cur

Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No objections here but since I don't use a foreign lang I figure my vote > doesn't really matter. I was wondering though if it would be resonable to try > and get some language updates into the patch release? With the current re-release plans it'd take a

Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2006-01-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:37, Tom Lane wrote: > A reasonable objection to either Plan A or Plan C is that it will add > error strings that are not currently in the translation message files; > which wouldn't matter for a HEAD-only patch, but I'd really like to > back-patch this into 8.1. Pla

Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: >> I'm thinking about whether we can't improve the message for "missing >> FROM-clause entry" to somehow account for situations where the table >> does exist in the query but it's referenced from an improper place, >> ... > On further investigation, this is arguably a regression in 8.1. >

Re: [HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2005-12-26 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > I'm thinking about whether we can't improve the message for "missing > FROM-clause entry" to somehow account for situations where the table > does exist in the query but it's referenced from an improper place, > as in bug #2130 (filed a couple hours ago, not yet visible in mail list > ar

[HACKERS] Improving "missing FROM-clause entry" message

2005-12-26 Thread Tom Lane
I'm thinking about whether we can't improve the message for "missing FROM-clause entry" to somehow account for situations where the table does exist in the query but it's referenced from an improper place, as in bug #2130 (filed a couple hours ago, not yet visible in mail list archives): SELECT ..