Re: PL/pgSQL, RAISE and error context

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL, RAISE and error context
Date: 2013-08-21 15:07:44
Message-ID: 5214D7C0.1000204@joh.to
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On 8/21/13 5:05 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> writes:
>>> By default, PL/pgSQL does not print the error context of a RAISE
>>> statement, for example:
>>
>> It used to do so, in the beginning when we first added context-printing.
>> There were complaints that the result was too verbose; for instance if you
>> had a RAISE NOTICE inside a loop for progress-monitoring purposes, you'd
>> get two lines for every one you wanted. I think if we undid this we'd
>> get the same complaints again. I agree that in complicated nests of
>> functions the location info is more interesting than it is in trivial
>> cases, but that doesn't mean you're not going to hear such complaints from
>> people with trivial functions.
>
> It *is* (apologies for the hijack) too verbose but whatever context
> suppressing we added doesn't work in pretty much any interesting case.
> What is basically needed is for the console to honor
> log_error_verbosity (which I would prefer) or a separate GUC in manage
> the console logging verbosity:

Why does \set VERBOSITY 'terse' not work for you?

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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