Tag: exception

Waiting for PostgreSQL 16 – Add test scaffolding for soft error reporting from input functions.

Title: On 9th of December 2022, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add test scaffolding for soft error reporting from input functions.
 
pg_input_is_valid() returns boolean, while pg_input_error_message()
returns the primary error message if the input is bad, or NULL
if the input is OK.  The main reason for having two functions is
so that we can test both the details-wanted and the no-details-wanted
code paths.
 
Although these are primarily designed with testing in mind,
it could well be that they'll be useful to end users as well.
 
This patch is mostly by me, but it owes very substantial debt to
earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, Andrew Dunstan, and Amul Sul.
Thanks to Andres Freund for review.
 
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034@postgrespro.ru

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Waiting for 9.2 – NULLS from pg_*_size() functions

On 19t of January, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:

Make pg_relation_size() and friends return NULL if the object doesn't exist.
 
That avoids errors when the functions are used in queries like "SELECT
pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class", and a table is dropped concurrently.
 
Phil Sorber

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Waiting for 9.2 – Stacked Diagnostics in PL/pgSQL

On 18th of July, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS plpgsql command to retrieve exception info.
 
This is more SQL-spec-compliant, more easily extensible, and better
performing than the old method of inventing special variables.
 
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada and David Wheeler

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