Arthur Zakirov <zaar...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2020/01/23 7:11, Tom Lane wrote: >> Closer examination shows that the "max" argument is pretty bogus as >> well. It doesn't do anything except confuse the reader, because there >> are no cases where the value passed is less than the maximum array entry >> length, so it never acts to change seq_search's behavior. So we should >> just drop that behavior from seq_search, too, and redefine "max" as >> having no purpose except to specify how much of the string to show in >> error messages. There's still a question of what that should be for >> non-English cases, but at least we now have a clear idea of what we >> need the value to do.
> Shouldn't we just show all remaining string instead of truncating it? That would avoid a bunch of arbitrary decisions, for sure. Anybody have an objection? regards, tom lane