Re: BUG #6377: some notice on the manual page - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: BUG #6377: some notice on the manual page
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYoDytBLJbxPX6S+g_oNBCRo9rZ7cZL73uh9ScsyfTUAA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to BUG #6377: some notice on the manual page  (moiseev.igor@gmail.com)
Responses Re: BUG #6377: some notice on the manual page  (igor <moiseev.igor@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:15 AM,  <moiseev.igor@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: =A0 =A0 =A06377
> Logged by: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Igor
> Email address: =A0 =A0 =A0moiseev.igor@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4.10
> Operating system: =A0 any
> Description:
>
> On the page of "Appendix A. PostgreSQL Error Codes"
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/errcodes-appendix.html)
> there is no info about the special condition name "OTHERS" which matches
> every error type except QUERY_CANCELED
>
> The info about the OTHERS could only be found in the subsection "38.6.5.
> Trapping Errors"
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/plpgsql-control-structure=
s.html)
>
> It seems reasonable at least to notice the OTHERS condition in Appendix A.
> Would save a lot of time!
> Thanks.

That seems a bit out of place to me, because that chapter is not
really about PL/pgsql, and OTHERS is not an exception name, just a
PL/pgsql construct.  Maybe we could work a cross-reference into the
sentence that mentions PL/plgsql, though.

--=20
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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