Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Not that this has anything to do with the patch at hand, but I remember
> thinking about this sort of error message in the past. Would it be
> appropriate to move the file name and line number to an errcontext()
> field?
I think the message is fine as is. If you moved that information then
you'd have nothing left in the base message but "syntax error", which
is useless.
> I know somebody is going to say "but errcontext is not shown when
> verbosity is set to terse", to which I say that we should fix that too.
No, because the whole point of terse is to be terse. Adding context
to the output would just create a demand for "super terse" mode.
regards, tom lane