> The original intent of that patch tried to cover the case where we insert > records > made of dozens columns sharing the same type definition, and trying to > understand > what is going on, at a glance, when we debugged something like this: > ... > Relying on the cursor seems to be of little help I'm afraid.
Well, it would be an improvement over what we've got now. Also, a feature similar to what I suggested would help in localizing many types of errors that have nothing to do with coercion to a target column type.