Re: PL/pgSQL, RAISE and error context

On 1/26/15 1:14 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2015-01-26 13:02 GMT+01:00 Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>:
>> I can see where it's a lot nicer not to have the context visible for
>> people who only care about the contents of the message, but the way it's
>> done in PL/PgSQL right now is just not good enough.  On the other hand, the
>> backwards compatibility breakage of doing this in libpq is quite
>> extensive.  The most simple option seems to be to just allow a GUC to
>> change PL/PgSQL's behavior to match what all other PLs are doing.
>>
>
> libpq was changed more time - there is still a open task about a protocol
> change.
>
> I afraid about some unexpected side effects of your proposal if somebody
> mix languages - these side effects should not be critical

I have no idea what you're talking about.  What kind of side effects?

> - but on second
> hand current behave is not critical too - we can wait.

I think the current behavior is almost unacceptable.  It makes debugging 
in some cases really, really difficult.


.marko