On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While looking at the series of functions pg_get_*, I have noticed as
>>> well that pg_get_userbyid() returns "unknown (OID=%u)" when it does
>>> not know a user. Perhaps we'd want to change that to NULL for
>>> consistency with the rest?
>
>> That's probably correct in theory, but it's a little less closely
>> related, and I'm not entirely sure how far we want to go with this.
>> Remember, the original purpose was to avoid having an internal error
>> (cache lookup failed, XX000) exposed as a user-visible error message.
>> Are we at risk from veering from actual bug-fixing off into useless
>> tinkering? Not sure.
>
> I'd vote for leaving that one alone; yeah, it's a bit inconsistent
> now, but no one has complained about its behavior.
OK for me. Thanks for the commit.
--
Michael