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
