On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:48, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> > >> Yeah, I know that, but this doesn't look quite right. I mean to say > >> whatever we want to say via this message is correct, but I am not > >> completely happy with the display part. How about something like: > >> "pgbench_accounts is missing, you need to do initialization (\"pgbench > >> -i\") in database \"%s\"\n"? Feel free to propose something else on > >> similar lines? If possible, I want to convey this information in a > single > >> sentence. > >> > >> How about, "pgbench_accounts is missing, initialize (\"pgbench -i\") in > > database \"%s\"\n"? > > I think that we should not presume too much about the solution: perhaps > the user did not specify the right database or host and it has nothing to > do with initialization. > > Maybe something like: > > "pgbench_accounts is missing, perhaps you need to initialize (\"pgbench > -i\") in database \"%s\"\n" > > The two sentences approach has the logic of "error" and a separate "hint" > which is often used. > +1 for error and hint separation. -- Regards, Rafia Sabih
