Re: pgsql: Add PL/pgSQL SQLSTATE and SQLERRM support which sets these values

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add PL/pgSQL SQLSTATE and SQLERRM support which sets these values
Date: 2005-05-26 22:30:39
Message-ID: 200505270030.41028.peter_e@gmx.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-committers pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Does Oracle support GET DIAGNOSTICS? If so, couldn't we just use
> > that? I can't see what good will become of making any slightly
> > useful information become available as magic variables of some
> > kind.
>
> Oracle actually defines these things as parameterless functions that
> are called without parentheses (like CURRENT_USER). "Magic
> variables" are about as close as we can get to matching that.

What I was aiming for is this: If Oracle supported GET DIAGNOSTICS, then
we could ask people to switch to that instead of using the magic
variables and they'd still have code that works both ways.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

In response to

Browse pgsql-committers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message User Andrewd 2005-05-27 00:49:22 pgbuildfarm - client-code: experimantal code to enable vpath builds -
Previous Message Tom Lane 2005-05-26 20:05:03 pgsql: Document that utility commands such as DROP FUNCTION allow

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Oliver Jowett 2005-05-26 23:14:37 Re: Implement support for TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL
Previous Message ¥9800ねっと 2005-05-26 19:50:38 L@VDVDIwV[YxDVDI