Re: error codes

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Neil Conway" <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: error codes
Date: 2002-07-18 01:57:56
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOOEDECDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> Should every elog() have an error code? I'm not sure -- there are many
> elog() calls that will never been seen by the user, since the error
> they represent will be caught before control reaches the elog (e.g.
> parse errors, internal consistency checks, multiple elog(ERROR)
> for the same user error, etc.) Perhaps for those error messages
> that don't have numbers, we could just give them ERRNO_UNKNOWN or
> a similar constant.

It might be cool to a little command utility "pg_error" or whatever that you
pass an error code to and it prints out a very detailed description of the
problem...

Chris

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