[db-wg] Suggestion: un-necessary error message

At 10:52 15/06/2006, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:23:54PM +0100, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message (extracted from a recent update attempt):
> >
> > >changed:       Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie 20060614
> > >changed:       oonagh.oreilly at comreg.ie 20040323
> > >changed:       hostmaster at ripe.net 20041222
> > >source:        RIPE
> > >***Error: The dates in the changed: attributes should be in
> > >accending order
> > >          '20040323' was found after '20060614'
> >
> > Wouldn't it be just as easy to sort the attributes into the correct
> > order
> > as to generate an error message?
>
>Agreed, and as I also just got bitten by this. The strange thing is that
>at it also reports 'syntax check passed' first and then spits out the
>error. Isn't this a syntax error ?


Nothing wrong with the syntax of the statements. It's a semantic matter - there is meaning in the content of the statements that implies an order. However it would seem reasonable that this be fixed up automatically.

-- Tim