> > But how do they display error messages now? Can't they just continue
> > doing that with this new code? Do we want to make them code their own
> > error handling, and for what little benefit? Let them figure out how to
> > display the error in fixed-width font and be done with it. I am sure
> > they have bigger things to do than colorize error locations.
>
> My 2c:
>
> Why not do tom's suggestion for the POSITION: n thing, and modify psql to
> strip out that header, and output the relevant part of the sql with a caret
> highlighting the error position.
>
> This will make it so that writers of the guis and format errors how they
> like, and users of the most popular text interface (psql) get human-readable
> results...
>
> ie. best of both worlds...
OK, I withdraw my objection.
Also, I like the idea of adding Hints and Function/line numbers to the
output too. The offset of the error would work into that system.
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