Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> Here's an ugly attempt towards this. Though I'm unsure if we can change
>> the "const" on the PQerrorMessage parameter without messing with library
>> versions and such?
> 
> That's a bad idea in any case --- PQerrorMessage shouldn't be changing
> the state of anything.  The merging needs to happen earlier.

That was my general thought, but since I'd written it, I just threw it
out there..


>> Another option could be to change all the calls that set the error
>> message to *append* to the error message instead. Thoughts on that?
> 
> That might work ... but we'd probably have to add some "clear the
> message" calls in places.  It might be worth trying to restrict this
> convention to the connection-startup code.

How about something like this?

//Magnus

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