On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:55, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> What plans are there for adding error trapping support to pl/PGSQL? In
> my case I'm trying to write code that will properly handle the race
> condition in doing a SELECT/INSERT (SELECT something but if it doesn't
> exist do an INSERT), and I can't see any way to make it fool-proof
> without being able to trap a duplicate key error. But it seems like
> error trapping is something that would be extremely useful to have aside
> from what I'm doing.
I do believe that this would be doable with subtransactions.
