On 3/9/24 15:39, Tom Lane wrote:
Joe Conway writes:
On 3/9/24 13:07, Tom Lane wrote:
BTW, while I didn't touch it here, it seems fairly bogus that
connectby() checks both type OID and typmod for its output
columns while crosstab() only checks type OID. I think
crosstab() is in the wrong and
Joe Conway writes:
> On 3/9/24 13:07, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> BTW, while I didn't touch it here, it seems fairly bogus that
>>> connectby() checks both type OID and typmod for its output
>>> columns while crosstab() only checks type OID. I think
>>> crosstab() is in the wrong and needs to be
On 3/9/24 13:07, Tom Lane wrote:
Joe Conway writes:
On 3/5/24 17:04, Tom Lane wrote:
After reading the thread at [1], I could not escape the feeling
that contrib/tablefunc's error reporting is very confusing.
The changes all look good to me and indeed more consistent with the docs.
Do you
Joe Conway writes:
> On 3/5/24 17:04, Tom Lane wrote:
>> After reading the thread at [1], I could not escape the feeling
>> that contrib/tablefunc's error reporting is very confusing.
> The changes all look good to me and indeed more consistent with the docs.
> Do you want me to push these? If
On 3/5/24 17:04, Tom Lane wrote:
After reading the thread at [1], I could not escape the feeling
that contrib/tablefunc's error reporting is very confusing.
Looking into the source code, I soon found that it is also
very inconsistent, with similar error reports being phrased
quite differently.
Joe Conway writes:
> I will have a look at your patches, and the other issue you mention, but
> it might be a day or three before I can give it some quality time.
No hurry certainly. Thanks for looking.
regards, tom lane
On 3/5/24 17:04, Tom Lane wrote:
After reading the thread at [1], I could not escape the feeling
that contrib/tablefunc's error reporting is very confusing.
Looking into the source code, I soon found that it is also
very inconsistent, with similar error reports being phrased
quite differently.
After reading the thread at [1], I could not escape the feeling
that contrib/tablefunc's error reporting is very confusing.
Looking into the source code, I soon found that it is also
very inconsistent, with similar error reports being phrased
quite differently. The terminology for column names
