The error handling for pqRowProcessor is described as
* Add the received row to the current async result (conn->result).
* Returns 1 if OK, 0 if error occurred.
*
* On error, *errmsgp can be set to an error string to be returned.
* If it is left NULL, the error is presumed to be "out of memory".
I find that this doesn't work anymore. If you set *errmsgp = "some
message" and return 0, then psql will just print a result set with zero
rows.
Bisecting points to
commit 618c16707a6d6e8f5c83ede2092975e4670201ad
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri Feb 18 15:35:15 2022 -0500
Rearrange libpq's error reporting to avoid duplicated error text.
It is very uncommon to get an error from pqRowProcessor(). To
reproduce, I inserted this code:
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
index c7c48d07dc..9c1b33c6e2 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,12 @@ pqRowProcessor(PGconn *conn, const char **errmsgp)
return 0;
}
+ if (nfields == 7)
+ {
+ *errmsgp = "gotcha";
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
/*
* Basically we just allocate space in the PGresult for each field and
* copy the data over.
This will produce assorted failures in the regression tests that
illustrate the effect.
(Even before the above commit, the handling of the returned message was
a bit weird: The error output was just the message string, without any
prefix like "ERROR:".)
