Re: [INTERFACES] Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 18 March 2003 14:45
> To: Peter Eisentraut
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] Upgrading the backend's
> error-message infrastructure
>
>
> I think this is a matter to be solved at the level of the API
> of each client library. For example, libpq's PQerrorMessage
> would presumably construct some unified string out of these
> three fields and the error severity; plus we'd add new calls
> to extract the individual fields. I do not think it's
> appropriate to try to control this from the server side of things.

I agree. It's trivial for ODBC/JDBC etc to concatenate a few strings,
and the flexibility gained by interfaces such as libpq that don't have a
spec to follow would be very welcome (here at least!).

Regards, Dave.