jian he <[email protected]> writes:
> Some of the regexp* function error messages seem not very helpful, I think.
> like:
> ereport(ERROR,
> errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
> errmsg("invalid value for parameter \"%s\": %d",
> "start", start));
> so I added a errhint, errhint would be better than refactoring existing
> errmsg.
> for the above example, I've add:
> + errhint("\"%s\" must be an integer value greater than zero", "start")));
There are probably hundreds of other places where the ereport
doesn't provide such detail, and I don't see that this adds
much. If you don't understand why a negative value isn't OK,
you still need to go RTFM.
(This message doesn't follow our style guidelines, either.)
regards, tom lane
