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

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 ?

MarcoH