On 2019-May-22, Mark Dilger wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Figuring out what fraction
> > that should be is part of the work --- but just in a quick scan through
> > spi.c, it seems like there might be a case for deprecating practically
> > all the SPI_ERROR_xxx codes except for SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE.
> > I'd definitely argue that SPI_ERROR_UNCONNECTED and SPI_ERROR_ARGUMENT
> > deserve that treatment.
> >
> > I'm for it, if you want to do the work, but I don't speak for everybody.
>
> I do want to write the patch, but I'll wait for other opinions.
In my perusal, the SPI API is unnecessarily baroque and could stand some
simplification, so +1 for the proposed approach.
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