Re: pl/pgsql exceptions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pl/pgsql exceptions
Date
Msg-id 6151.1094273858@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pl/pgsql exceptions  (Shelby Cain <alyandon@yahoo.com>)
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Shelby Cain <alyandon@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is there any way to retrieve the error code and error
> message text when an exception has been caught via
> "exception when others" in pl/pgsql?

Not yet.  I'm open to suggestions though ...

> I'm looking
> essentially for the equivalent of Oracle's pl/sql
> sqlerrm and sqlcode variables.

We can't just copy those, since we aren't using SQLCODE error
numbers.  I'm not sure how to map the error/detail/hint structure
into all this, either ... and does a plpgsql function want to see
localized message texts, or not?

            regards, tom lane

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