Re: TODO Item - Return compressed length of TOAST datatypes

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
>

Apologies all, my "not fussed about it" was highly misleading - I had
already changed the error message as per Neil's suggestion in the
revised patch, but that was not obvious from my comment :-(

regards

Mark