Re: Trapping errors from pl/perl (trigger) functions

From: Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Trapping errors from pl/perl (trigger) functions
Date: 2007-07-01 22:07:14
Message-ID: f698ij$jt0$1@sea.gmane.org
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On Sunday 01 July 2007 21:50, Tom Lane wrote:

> Why would you expect it to? The raise_exception SQLSTATE applies
> specifically and solely to the plpgsql RAISE command. The entire
> point of those identifiers is to match fairly narrow classes of
> exceptions, not anything thrown by anyone.
>
> IMHO the real problem with both RAISE and the plperl elog command
> is there's no way to specify which SQLSTATE to throw. In the case
> of the elog command I think you just get a default.

I expected it to, because I told elog what kind of errorlevel to give me, but
apparently that does not influence the SQLSTATE. I didn't know it didn't apply
to procedures in other languages.

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