Re: proposal: better support for debugging of overloaded functions

2011/11/18 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "assign_rslts" line 50 at assignment (oid: 65903)
>>
>> \sf+ 65903
>
> I'm pretty unenthused by the idea of making OIDs more user-visible
> than they already are.  If the message is ambiguous, we should include
> argument types and (if not the object that would be visible under the
> current search_path) a schema qualification.  Spitting out a five (or
> six or seven or eight) digit number doesn't seem like a usability
> improvement.

Is possible to add GUC variable plpgsql.log_function_signature (maybe
just log_function_signature (for all PL))? I am not sure about GUC
name.

When this variable is true, then CONTEXT line will contain a qualified
function's signature instead function name

I don't would to check if function name is ambiguous or not after
exception is raised. There is a problem with access to system tables
and then exception handling can be slower. Using a qualified name is
necessary, because psql meta statements are not "smart" - they are
based on search_path and fact, so name is not  ambiguous doesn't help
there.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

p.s. Other issue is missing CONTEXT line for RAISE EXCEPTION

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