On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> I don't wish to seem humorless, but I think this should probably be changed: >> >> root/HEAD/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql:248: RAISE EXCEPTION >> 'I''m sorry Sir, No Rewrite Allowed.'; >> >> Quite apart from any other reason, the "Sir" does seem a bit sexist - we >> have no idea of the gender of the reader. Probably just 'sorry, no rewrite >> allowed' would suffice. > > This seems pointless tinkering to me. Should I start introducing female > pronouns in test error messages, to measure how much this will annoy my > male conterparts? This is not a user visible message in any case.
I'm with Andrew. Aside from any question of sexism, which I do not discount, the capitalization is wrong. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
