Re: proposal: enable new error fields in plpgsql (9.4)

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 05:21:29PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2013/6/28 Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>:
> > Okay.  I failed to note the first time through that while the patch uses the
> > same option names for RAISE and GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS, the existing option
> > lists for those commands differ:
> >
> > --RAISE option--    --GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS option--
> > ERRCODE             RETURNED_SQLSTATE
> > MESSAGE             MESSAGE_TEXT
> > DETAIL              PG_EXCEPTION_DETAIL
> > HINT                PG_EXCEPTION_HINT
> > CONTEXT             PG_EXCEPTION_CONTEXT
> >
> > To be consistent with that pattern, I think we would use COLUMN, CONSTRAINT,
> > TABLE, TYPE and SCHEMA as the new RAISE options.
> 
> I understand to your motivation, but I am not sure. Minimally word
> "TYPE" is too general. I have not strong opinion in this area. maybe
> DATATYPE ??

I'm not positive either.  DATATYPE rather than TYPE makes sense.

> p.s. you cannot to specify CONTEXT in RAISE statement

Oops; right.

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Noah Misch
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