Re: autogenerating error code lists (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add foreign data wrapper error code values for SQL/MED.) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 26/12/10 20:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> writes:
>> How about a format like this then:
> 
>> # Comment
>> Section: Class 2F - SQL Routine Exception
>> macro_name sqlstate plpgsqlname is_error
> 
>> That is: # and blank lines are comments, lines starting with "Section:"
>> are section names (needed for SGML output), the rest are whitespace
>> separated strings. is_error is 0 or 1, if it's 0 we don't generate a
>> plpgsql condition for it.
> 
> Or just leave out the plpgsqlname if we don't want a condition to be
> generated?

Makes sense. Wait, no, errcodes.sgml includes the entries for success
and warnings, but the plpgsql conditions list does not. So we need a
separate column to differentiate.

> Things might line up nicer if the sqlstate is the first column.

I was thinking of separating the values with tabs anyway, but I'm fine
with putting sqlstate first.

Cheers,
Jan