| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sabin Coanda <sabin(dot)coanda(at)deuromedia(dot)ro> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: trap for any exception |
| Date: | 2007-11-15 15:35:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20071115073257.O23226@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Sabin Coanda wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to build a PL/pgSQL function which is able to generic trap any
> error, and interpret it.
>
> I read 37.7.5. Trapping Errors, but the syntax requires to write explicitly
> the exception condition, and not a generic one.
>
> Is it possible to build a generic trap or do you know a workaround for that
> ?
Won't OTHERS catch most of what you want?
From the 8.2 docs:
"The special condition name OTHERS matches every error type except
QUERY_CANCELED. (It is possible, but often unwise, to trap QUERY_CANCELED
by name.)"
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