Re: Determine the name of the calling function

Daniel,

Thank you for the "alternative language" idea. Unfortunately, PL/pgSQL is
the only PL on the test database I am learning on. Of course, other
languages may become available to us down the road. I'll your suggestion
in mind.

Thank you, Jack

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal(at)usa(dot)net> wrote:

> --As of January 18, 2013 11:28:02 AM -0500, Jack Kaufman is alleged to
> have said:
>
> Our shop is converting to PostgreSQL & PL/pgSQL and we are figuring out
>> how to apply the language to our environment. I want to write some API
>> functions that will be called from many other functions. I want these
>> APIs to log errors to a table and I would like the table entries to
>> include the name of the function that called the API. Anyway, that's
>> where I'm headed. Thanks for the support.
>>
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> Just a question, as I'm not entirely sure of the answer myself, but would
> it be possible in another one of the languages Postgres supports? This
> sounds like a language feature to me, and I know Perl's 'caller' function
> would do this for instance, the question is if it would be fully functional
> in pgPerl.
>
> Daniel T. Staal
>
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