Re: pg_croak, or something like it?

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:50 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So?  elog() is just a specific degenerate case of ereport().  If we have
> a way to implement ereport() on frontend side then we can surely do
> elog() too.

I suppose that's true.

> What it sounds to me like you want to do is implement (some equivalent of)
> elog() but not ereport() for this environment.  I'm going to resist that
> pretty strongly, because I think it will lead directly to abuse of elog()
> for user-facing errors, with a consequent degradation of the user
> experience when that code executes on backend side.  I do not believe
> that there are no user-facing error cases in the JSON parser, for
> example; much less that we'll never introduce any in future.

You clearly haven't read the thread on this topic, or at least not
very carefully.

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