Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement
Date: 2011-12-13 16:55:40
Message-ID: CAFj8pRAWj0rc=t7i3RxV3ipNc9b1kL+fvbdf9EJ32-Hmyt5qFA@mail.gmail.com
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2011/12/13 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2011/12/13 Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>:
>>> Either that, or couldn't you pass an option List as data type "internal"?
>
>> this is question - internal is most simply solution, but then we
>> cannot to call check function directly
>
> Yeah, one of the proposals for allowing people to specify complicated
> conditions about what to check was to tell them to do
>        select checker(oid) from pg_proc where any-random-condition;

> If the checker isn't user-callable then we lose that escape hatch, and
> the only selection conditions that will ever be possible are the ones
> we take the trouble to shoehorn into the CHECK FUNCTION statement.
> Doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

yes, it is reason why I thinking just about string array.

I have not idea about other PL, but options for plpgsql can be one
word and checker function can simply parse two or more words options.

Now I would to implement flags "quite" - ignore NOTIFY messages and
"fatal_errors" to stop on first error.

Regards

Pavel

>
>                        regards, tom lane

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