Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>> For #2, I'm not sure where the right place to check domain constraints
>> is. I was thinking about adding the check to the fmgr function call
>> logic[1], but the domain checking code needs an ExprContext in which to
>> evaluate the constraint, which wouldn't easily be accessible.
>
> I'd go with making the PLs do it. fmgr is a very low logical level and
> it's inappropriate for it to even know what a domain is. As an example
> of the problems you will run into: how is fmgr going to find out whether
> the target type is a domain, much less what its constraints are? It
> can't assume that it's running inside a transaction, or even that the
> system catalog access machinery is alive yet.
>
Should I consider this as something to add to the PL/Java TODO list? Or is there more to be
discussed?
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren