Re: Assertions in PL/PgSQL

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Khandekar <amit(dot)khandekar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Assertions in PL/PgSQL
Date: 2013-09-23 09:00:50
Message-ID: 52400342.206@joh.to
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On 9/23/13 10:50 AM, I wrote:
> On 9/23/13 6:40 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> After days I am thinking so it can be a good solution
>>
>> syntax - enhanced current RAISE
>>
>> RAISE ASSERT WHEN boolean expression
>>
>> RAISE ASSERT 'some message' WHEN expression
>
> It looks like I'm losing this battle, but this syntax isn't too bad.
>
>> and we can have a GUC that controls asserts per database - possibly
>> overwritten by plpgsql option - similar to current plpgsql options
>>
>> assert_level = [*ignore*, notice, warning, error]
>
> This sounds like a decent enhancement.

Oh, it would be nice to have the option here to say "assertions can't be
caught by exception handlers", but I don't know how that mechanism works
so I'm not sure it's possible. I'll have to look into that.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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