Tom Lane wrote:
>Brendan Jurd <blakjak@blakjak.sytes.net> writes:
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>>ERROR: query-specified return row and actual function return row do not
>>match
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>>With that in mind, I'd like to submit a request, that the verbosity of
>>this error message be increased to explain which ordinal column position
>>the error occurred at, and, if possible, the details of the mismatch.
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>This is a fairly trivial change, but unfortunately it's too late for
>8.0, because we froze error message texts some time ago (for the benefit
>of translators).
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>If you want to start working on a patch for 8.1, look in
>src/backend/executor/nodeFunctionscan.c. I'd be inclined to forget the
>bool return convention for tupledesc_match() and just have it ereport
>directly when it sees a problem. The rowtype matching code in
>check_sql_fn_retval (in src/backend/executor/functions.c) would be
>useful as a reference.
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> regards, tom lane
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I'll check it out. Thanks for the pointers.
