At 22:03 21/03/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>This is going to be a disaster for the coder.  Every time you look at an
>elog you don't know what it does? Is the first arg a %s or a %d?  What's
>the first %s, what the second?

FWIW, I did a quick scan for elog in PG and found:

- 6856 calls (may include commented-out calls) 
- 2528 unique messages
- 1248 have no parameters
- 859 have exactly one argument
- 285 have exactly 2 args
- 136 have 3 or more args

so 83% have one or no arguments, which is probably not going to be very
confusing.

Looking at the actual messages, there is also a great deal of opportunity
to standardize and simplify since many of the messages only differ by their
prefixed function name.



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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:47:52 +1100
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: More on elog and error codes