Re: Any hope for more specific error message for "value too long..."?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ken Tanzer <ken(dot)tanzer(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any hope for more specific error message for "value too long..."?
Date: 2018-02-17 01:36:48
Message-ID: 5614.1518831408@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I seem to recall a discussion a few years back but cannot find it searching
> online. The one post I did find was from 6 years ago and I was the only
> respondent and basically said the same or less than I am here.

I dug in the archives and came across a crude POC hack here:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/21693.1478376334@sss.pgh.pa.us

At the time I didn't want to pursue it further because of Andres'
pending work on redoing expression execution, but that's landed now.

regards, tom lane

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