Re: improving user.c error messages

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I almost hate to bring this up since I'm not sure how far we want to
> go down this rat hole, but what should be our policy about mentioning
> superuser? I don't think we're entirely consistent right now, and I'm
> not sure whether every error message needs to mention that if you were
> the superuser you could do everything. Is that something we should
> mention always, never, or in some set of circumstances?

Good point.  My vote is for standardizing on *not* mentioning it.
Error messages should say "you need privilege X".  That is not
the place to go into all the ways you could hold privilege X
(one of which is being superuser).

            regards, tom lane