Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> writes:
> FWIW, I suspect very few people know about the verbosity setting (I
> didn't until a few months ago...) Maybe psql should hint about it the
> first time an error is reported in a session.
Actually, what'd be really handy IMO is something to regurgitate the
most recent error in verbose mode, without making a permanent session
state change. Something like
regression=# insert into bar values(1);
ERROR: insert or update on table "bar" violates foreign key constraint "bar_f1_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (f1)=(1) is not present in table "foo".
regression=# \saywhat
ERROR: 23503: insert or update on table "bar" violates foreign key constraint "bar_f1_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (f1)=(1) is not present in table "foo".
SCHEMA NAME: public
TABLE NAME: bar
CONSTRAINT NAME: bar_f1_fkey
LOCATION: ri_ReportViolation, ri_triggers.c:3326
regression=#
Not sure how hard that would be to do within psql's current structure.
regards, tom lane