Re: Improve the HINT message of the ALTER command for postgres_fdw

> On 8 Oct 2021, at 09:38, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:48 PM bt21masumurak
> <bt21masumurak@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> When 'ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER OPTIONS' is executed against
>> postgres_fdw, the HINT message is printed as shown below, even though
>> there are no valid options in this context.
>>
>> =# ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER postgres_fdw OPTIONS (format 'csv');
>> ERROR: invalid option "format"
>> HINT: Valid options in this context are:
>>
>> I made a patch for this problem.
>
> Good catch.

+1

> It seems like the change proposed for postgres_fdw_validator is similar to what
> file_fdw is doing in file_fdw_validator.  I think we also need to do the same
> change in dblink_fdw_validator and postgresql_fdw_validator as well.

Agreed.

> While on this, it's better to add test cases for the error message
> "There are no valid options in this context." for all the three fdws
> i.e. file_fdw, postgres_fdw and dblink_fdw may be in their respective
> contrib modules test files, and for postgresql_fdw_validator in
> src/test/regress/sql/foreign_data.sql.

+1.

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