Re: TODO Item - Return compressed length of TOAST datatypes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:01:46PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> I have attached a little change to varlena.c that uses it. I left the
>> ereport as it was, but am not fussed about it either way.

> I am, because it gives useless messages to the translators to work on.

Exactly.  I had already made a private note to fix that patch ---
inventing your own random wording and punctuation for an extremely
standard error message is simply Not Acceptable.

            regards, tom lane