Re: [HACKERS] [Proposal] Allow users to specify multiple tables inVACUUM commands

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> +           /*
> +            * We have already checked the column list in vacuum(...),
> +            * but the columns may have disappeared since then.  If
> +            * this happens, emit a nice warning message and skip the
> +            * undefined column.
> +            */
> I think that this would be reworded. "nice" is cute is this context.
> Why not just saying something like:
> "Do not issue an ERROR if a column is missing but use a WARNING
> instead. At the beginning of the VACUUM run, the code already checked
> for undefined columns and informed about an ERROR, but we want the
> processing to move on for existing columns."

Hmm, I find your (Michael's) suggestion substantially less clear than
the wording to which you are objecting.

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