Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Does Oracle support GET DIAGNOSTICS? If so, couldn't we just use
> > that? I can't see what good will become of making any slightly
> > useful information become available as magic variables of some
> > kind.
>
> Oracle actually defines these things as parameterless functions that
> are called without parentheses (like CURRENT_USER). "Magic
> variables" are about as close as we can get to matching that.
What I was aiming for is this: If Oracle supported GET DIAGNOSTICS, then
we could ask people to switch to that instead of using the magic
variables and they'd still have code that works both ways.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
