From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk>, "'pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RAISE concatination/variables in plpgsql |
Date: | 2001-05-08 00:03:53 |
Message-ID: | 24057.989280233@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Looking at the plpgsql code, it's clear that what's actually implemented
>> is
>> RAISE level string-literal [ , variable [ , variable [ ... ] ]
> I see the current docs showing:
> RAISE level 'format' [, identifier [...]];
> Is this acceptable? Should 'identifier' be 'variable'?
Probably. And 'format' is even more misleading, since it implies that
you write a printf-like format string, which you do not. The output is
just the concatenation of the literal and the variable values.
>> which is pretty bletcherous; seems like it should accept a list of
>> expressions instead. But for 7.1, I guess this is a documentation bug
>> rather than something to change in the code.
> Do I need a TODO item here?
It seems in need of fixing to me ...
regards, tom lane
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