Re: Error code for "terminating connection due to conflict with recovery"

On 1/31/11 11:26 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> The purpose of errcodes is to allow programs to check them and then act.
> It's pointless to add a new errcode that is so rare that nobody will
> ever program for it because they won't expect it, let alone test for it.
> Or at least won't assign any sensible priority to handling that error.

Personally, I would prefer a new error code because I *intend* to write
specific code to deal with replication cancellation. Without a specific
code, then I cannot distinguish replication cancel from whatever else
it's lumped in with, except by regexping the error message.

If we're not going to get a new code, then I'd prefer DEADLOCK_DETECTED
because the behavior we expect from the client (try the whole
transaction over from the beginning) is the same.

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