Re: help needed with CREATE CONVERSION

Tom Lane dijo: 

> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> > I encountered a problem while implementing new CREATE
> > CONVERSION. Since converion procs are dynamically invoked while doing
> > an encoding conversion, it might fail for some reasons:
> 
> > (2) buggy conversion proc is defined by a user
> 
> This I think we have to be concerned about; there will always be the
> possibility of a failure in the conversion proc.
> 
> > Problem is, in any case mentioned above, an ERROR is raised and
> > backend tries to send an error message which again raise an ERROR. As
> > a result, backend goes into an infinite loop.

What about having a separate elog() category that evades the conversion
stuff, so if something fails in character conversion it doesn't get
called again?  Some way to ``disable'' recursion in elog().

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