Re: PROPOSAL - User's exception in PL/pgSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: PROPOSAL - User's exception in PL/pgSQL
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0506220502050.8113-100000@kix.fsv.cvut.cz
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In response to Re: PROPOSAL - User's exception in PL/pgSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz> writes:
> > I wont to prohibit synonyms in exception (every exception has unique 
> > sqlstate).
> 
> I don't think that's a particularly good idea --- maybe if SQL had been
> designed according to your worldview, it'd be like that, but it isn't
> and you can't retroactively force it to be.  The SQLSTATEs are
> deliberately designed to be fairly coarse, not unique.  I believe the
> design intention is to distinguish between two cases when it's likely
> that client application code would do something different in the two
> cases.  Not to be "unique for uniqueness' sake".
> 

it's can be source of bugs. For me, uniqueness sqlstates is 20 lines more. 
Ok. I will send patch without unique states.

Pavel



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