Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I have written a patch to issue an hint if someone tries to create a
> > function in a language that isn't loaded into the database:
>
> > ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist
> > HINT: Perhaps you need to use 'createlang' to load the language into
> > the database.
>
> > I know Peter didn't like this idea in the past, but we are getting too
> > many people who forget createlang, and with our new HINT tags, it seems
> > appropriate.
>
> I still agree with Peter's opinion ... this hint is fairly silly,
> especially since it would pop out for simple misspellings of language
> names.
What can we do to help people remember they have forgotten to load the
language? The post that question here too often. I don't see any
problem with a hint that starts with "Perhaps".
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