Re: Determine the name of the calling function

--As of January 18, 2013 11:28:02 AM -0500, Jack Kaufman is alleged to have
said:

> Our shop is converting to PostgreSQL & PL/pgSQL and we are figuring out
> how to apply the language to our environment.  I want to write some API
> functions that will be called from many other functions.  I want these
> APIs to log errors to a table and I would like the table entries to
> include the name of the function that called the API.  Anyway, that's
> where I'm headed.  Thanks for the support.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

Just a question, as I'm not entirely sure of the answer myself, but would
it be possible in another one of the languages Postgres supports? This
sounds like a language feature to me, and I know Perl's 'caller' function
would do this for instance, the question is if it would be fully functional
in pgPerl.

Daniel T. Staal

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