On 14/06/17 11:57, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Ian Barwick <i...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> Howver in this particular use case, as long as it doesn't produce false >> positives (I haven't looked at the patch) I don't think it would cause >> any problems (of the kind which would require actively excluding certain >> languages/character sets), it just wouldn't be quite as useful. > > I'm not sure what you mean by false positives. The patch just shows a > HINT, where before there was none. It's possible for any number of > reasons that it isn't the most useful possible suggestion, since > Levenshtein distance is used as opposed to any other scheme that might > be better sometimes. I think that the hint given is a generally useful > piece of information in the event of an ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN > error. Obviously I think the patch is worthwhile, but fundamentally > the HINT given is just a guess, as with the existing HINTs.
I mean, does it come up with a suggestion in every case, even if there is no remotely similar column? E.g. would SELECT foo FROM some_table bring up column "bar" as a suggestion if "bar" is the only column in the table? Anyway, is there an up-to-date version of the patch available? The one from March doesn't seem to apply cleanly to HEAD. Thanks Ian Barwick -- Ian Barwick http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
