Re: User Defined Functions Errors

Have a try with RAISE NOTE or RAISE EXCEPTION
keep in mind that exceptions should be exceptional. So a good idea of
whether to use them is to ask 'Do I expect such error' or 'is an explicit
error useful for the caller'. I'ts often better to just return an empty
relation

|-----Original Message-----
|From: A. Kulikov [mailto:a(dot)kulikov(at)gmail(dot)com]
|Sent: Montag, 18. April 2005 20:32
|To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
|Subject: [SQL] User Defined Functions Errors
|
|
|How to I return an error from inside a user defined function? For
|example the following:
|
|CREATE or REPLACE FUNCTION drop_node (integer) RETURNS text
|AS '
|
|DECLARE
|
|mleft INTEGER;
|mright INTEGER;
|
|BEGIN
|
|-- Check if the desired node exists
|SELECT lft, rgt FROM structure WHERE id = $1 INTO mleft, mright;
|
|IF mleft IS NULL THEN
| RETURN ''No entry found with an id of ''||$2;
|END IF;
|
|-- Drop the node and its subtree
|DELETE FROM structure WHERE lft >= mleft AND rgt <= mright;
|
|-- Close the gap
|UPDATE structure SET rgt = rgt - (mright - mleft + 1) WHERE
|rgt > mright;
|UPDATE structure SET lft = lft - (mright - mleft + 1) WHERE
|lft > mleft;
|
|RETURN ''ok'';
|
|END;
|'
|LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
|
|Should be terminated with an error @ RETURN "No Entry found"; instead
|of returning the error text.
|
|best regards and thanks,
|
|Alex
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