Re: Error code for "terminating connection due to conflict with recovery"

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, fgp(at)phlo(dot)org, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Error code for "terminating connection due to conflict with recovery"
Date: 2011-01-31 15:51:09
Message-ID: 201101311551.p0VFp9Z27439@momjian.us
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > As a novice I am not sure why we _wouldn't_ create two new
> > separate error codes
>
> The argument for using SQLSTATE 40001 for failures which are
> strictly due to concurrency problems, and are likely to work if the
> transaction is retried, is that there is already a lot of software
> which knows how to do that. On the other hand, going into such code
> to turn that into a list of concurrency failure states is probably
> only going to cause pain to those with applications intended to work
> with multiple DBMS products without much modification.

The way they usually handle that is by having a class of codes that
designate that behavior, but I can see now that the number can't be
subdivided. :-(

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