* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > >> In the context at hand, I think most of the messages in question are > >> currently phrased like "must be superuser to do X". I'd be fine with > >> changing that to "permission denied to do X", but not to just > >> "permission denied". > > > > Apologies for the terseness of my (earlier) reply. This is exactly what > > I'm suggesting. What was in the patch was this change: > > > > ! ERROR: must be superuser or replication role to use replication slots > > > > --- > > > > ! ERROR: permission denied to use replication slots > > ! HINT: You must be superuser or replication role to use replication slots. > > Your proposed change takes two lines to convey the same amount of > information that we are currently conveying in one line. How is that > better?
It includes the actual error message, unlike what we have today which is guidence as to what's required to get past the permission denied error. In other words, I disagree that the same amount of information is being conveyed. Thanks, Stephen
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