On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:07:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> > We use "cannot" and "could not" quite often in source code and error
> > messages:
>
> Yup.
>
> > Is there any sense that we should have more consistency in our message
> > wording?
>
> There is specific guida
Bruce Momjian writes:
> We use "cannot" and "could not" quite often in source code and error
> messages:
Yup.
> Is there any sense that we should have more consistency in our message
> wording?
There is specific guidance about it in our error message style guide:
https://www.postgresql.org/doc
We use "cannot" and "could not" quite often in source code and error
messages:
$ grep .. 'cannot' | wc -l
13180
$ grep ... 'could not' | wc -l
12149
I noticed it by looking for errors about parsing in our /bin tools:
src/pl/plperl/ppport.h: die "cann
