> On Aug 2, 2020, at 9:13 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:59 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't really like the name, either. I get that it's probably
>> inspired by Perl, but I think it should be given a less-clever name
>> like report_corruption() or something.
>
> +1 -- confess() is an awful name for this.
I was trying to limit unnecessary whitespace changes. s/ereport/econfess/ leaves the function name nearly the same
lengthsuch that the following lines of indented error text don't usually get moved by pgindent. Given the unpopularity
ofthe name, it's not worth it, so I'll go with Robert's report_corruption, instead.
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