Re: TODO Item - Return compressed length of TOAST datatypes

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:01:46PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:

> >elog(ERROR) is usually used for "can't happen" errors; also, the usual
> >error message in this scenario is "cache lookup failed [...]". Perhaps
> >better to use get_typlen() here, anyway.
>
> 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.
elog parameters are not marked for translation, ereport are (errmsg and
friends, really).  So please don't do that.

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