From 02ca529dd8a8f4a102c857120ce6869bad4676f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:08:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make error message more verbose, in hopes of avoiding misunderstandings such as bug #1293. --- src/backend/parser/parse_target.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c index b130a842af..788f6f4dfa 100644 --- a/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c +++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c,v 1.126 2004/09/30 00:24:21 tgl Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c,v 1.127 2004/10/25 03:08:29 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -486,15 +486,17 @@ transformAssignmentIndirection(ParseState *pstate, if (!typrelid) ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH), - errmsg("cannot assign to a column of type %s because it is not a composite type", + errmsg("cannot assign to field \"%s\" of column \"%s\" because its type %s is not a composite type", + strVal(n), targetName, format_type_be(targetTypeId)))); attnum = get_attnum(typrelid, strVal(n)); if (attnum == InvalidAttrNumber) ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN), - errmsg("column \"%s\" not found in data type %s", - strVal(n), format_type_be(targetTypeId)))); + errmsg("cannot assign to field \"%s\" of column \"%s\" because there is no such column in data type %s", + strVal(n), targetName, + format_type_be(targetTypeId)))); if (attnum < 0) ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN), -- 2.40.0