Re: [PATCH] SQL function to report log message

On 10/22/15 4:59 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     It prevents everyone from reinventing the 'create a function wrapper
>     around RAISE' wheel that several people on this list alone have
>     admitted to. I think there's plenty of value in that.
>
>
> I have different opinion, I am sorry. The RAISE statement is differently
> designed with different possibility - the function is limited by using
> variadic function, and should not to have same behave as RAISE. And I
> don't like a idea to push RAISE to behave of variadic function.

I thought the only issue here was that RAISE currently pukes on a NULL 
input, and I thought you'd changed your mind and agreed that it makes 
sense for RAISE to just silently ignore anything that's NULL (except 
maybe for message). Am I wrong on one or both counts?

IIRC 3 or 4 people on this list liked the idea of a function roughly 
equivalent to RAISE, to avoid the make-work of writing that function. 
That's why I disagree with your statement that there's no point to this 
function even if it acts the same as RAISE.
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