"Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> I agree that the % formatting in the RAISE message is weird, but it is
> useful.
Sure, I'm not proposing removing it.
> What would we do if the user specifies a %-formatted message as well
> as a MESSAGE option?
Throw an error (just like if they specified the same option type twice).
> I like "RAISE condition_name", can we support it in conjunction with
> the current syntax? That is:
> RAISE level [condition] [string literal, [parameter, ...]] [USING
> [option = value, ...]]
Well, it's sort of a mess because level has to become optional in order
to be Oracle-compatible (or PSM-compliant, if Kevin is correct). We
could get away with it only if the condition were not allowed to be
a string literal, which I guess is tolerable but it's a bit annoying.
It would get less annoying if we allowed user-declared exception names.
I find the Oracle syntax for those to be spectacularly awful:
DECLARE deadlock_detected EXCEPTION; PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(deadlock_detected, -60);
but it sounds like SQL/PSM's syntax isn't so bad. I could live with
the reported
DECLARE condition-name CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE VALUE character-literal
However, that's a separate feature and I don't want to get into it as
part of the current patch.
regards, tom lane
