Re: Mention column name in error messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Franck Verrot
Subject Re: Mention column name in error messages
Date
Msg-id CANfkH5=obsaD4vSte0GbFYy7+UfiphML5iHsPSveOhLiyn5tdQ@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Mention column name in error messages  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Mention column name in error messages
List pgsql-hackers


On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it's a neat improvement in any case.

--
Franck Verrot

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Let's get rid of SPI_push/SPI_pop
Next
From: Andreas Karlsson
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reload SSL certificates on SIGHUP