Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I almost hate to bring this up since I'm not sure how far we want to > go down this rat hole, but what should be our policy about mentioning > superuser? I don't think we're entirely consistent right now, and I'm > not sure whether every error message needs to mention that if you were > the superuser you could do everything. Is that something we should > mention always, never, or in some set of circumstances?
Good point. My vote is for standardizing on *not* mentioning it. Error messages should say "you need privilege X". That is not the place to go into all the ways you could hold privilege X (one of which is being superuser). regards, tom lane