Tag: context

Waiting for 9.3 – Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.

Yet another missed thing for “Waiting for 9.3". Sorry about that.

On 29th of January, Tom Lane committed patch:

Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.
 
This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to
extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages,
if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION
failure.  It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which
can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint
associated with the error.  (Since the protocol spec has always instructed
clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any
compatibility problem.)
 
Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set
of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation"
SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future.
 
Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with
additional hacking by Tom Lane.

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Waiting for 9.2 – Stacked Diagnostics in PL/pgSQL

On 18th of July, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS plpgsql command to retrieve exception info.
 
This is more SQL-spec-compliant, more easily extensible, and better
performing than the old method of inventing special variables.
 
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada and David Wheeler

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Suppressing CONTEXT lines in psql

CONTEXT messages are quite informative, but when you don't need them, they can be real pain in the eyes:

psql:trees.sql:68: NOTICE:  Adding tree structures to table public.testit.
CONTEXT:  SQL function "add_tree_structure" statement 1
psql:trees.sql:68: NOTICE:  Tree table will be public.testit_tree.
CONTEXT:  SQL function "add_tree_structure" statement 1
psql:trees.sql:68: NOTICE:  Primary key in source table is: id
CONTEXT:  SQL function "add_tree_structure" statement 1

I mean – I know the context. I'm writing the sql file right now, how to disable it?

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