Re: Text Description of Current Exception

Ward Eaton wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:04A6DB42D2BA534FAC77B90562A6A03DD629A9@server.rad-con.local"
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font-family:Arial;">Hello,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Arial;"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Arial;">I would like to log any exceptions which may be thrown in my database functions.  Oracle has a
predefinedvariable,</span></font><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue;">
</span></font><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">SQLERRM, which will always
havea text description of the current exception.  Is there anything like this available in postgres?</span></font><p
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notsure what you are after.  Your requesting logging the error yet referring to SqlErrm used in exception blocks<br
/><br/> postgresql has SQLSTATE used in  exception catching of errors in a pl/SQL function  see<br /><a
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href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING</a><br
/><br/> Postgresql logs errors in a log file unless it's been turned off.<br /> See configure logging <br /><a
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href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-logging.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-logging.html</a><br
/><br/><br /> These instructions are for 8.3  if you have different version go to this section of the help files for
yourspecific version.<br /><br />