Re: POC PATCH: copy from ... exceptions to: (was Re: VLDB Features)

On 2023-03-07 18:09, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2023, at 09:35, Damir Belyalov <dam.bel07@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I felt just logging "Error: %ld" would make people wonder the meaning 
>> of
>> the %ld. Logging something like ""Error: %ld data type errors were
>> found" might be clearer.
>> 
>> Thanks. For more clearance change the message to: "Errors were found: 
>> %".
> 
> I'm not convinced that this adds enough clarity to assist the user.  We 
> also
> shouldn't use "error" in a WARNING log since the user has explicitly 
> asked to
> skip rows on error, so it's not an error per se.
+1

> How about something like:
> 
>   ereport(WARNING,
>           (errmsg("%ld rows were skipped due to data type
> incompatibility", cstate->ignored_errors),
>            errhint("Skipped rows can be inspected in the database log
> for reprocessing.")));
Since skipped rows cannot be inspected in the log when 
log_error_verbosity is set to terse,
it might be better without this errhint.

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NTT DATA CORPORATION