exception problem

From: java4dev <java4dev(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: exception problem
Date: 2011-02-22 17:34:41
Message-ID: 1298396081219-3395874.post@n5.nabble.com
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Hello I have the following table

CREATE TABLE aaa.domains (
pk_domain_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
domain_name CHARACTER VARYING(254) NOT NULL,
is_unlocked BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE NOT NULL, -- LOCKED = 0, UNLOCKED = 1
fk_owner_user_id INTEGER DEFAULT NULL, -- owner
CONSTRAINT IXP_PK_DOMAIN_ID PRIMARY KEY (pk_domain_id)
);

-- ALTER TABLE aaa.domains ADD CONSTRAINT IXP_PK_DOMAIN_ID PRIMARY KEY
(pk_domain_id);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IXU_DOMAINS_DOMAIN_NAME ON aaa.domains (domain_name);
CREATE INDEX IX_DOMAINS_OWNER_USER_ID ON aaa.domains (fk_owner_user_id);

CREATE SEQUENCE aaa.seq_domains
START WITH 1000
INCREMENT BY 1
NO CYCLE
OWNED BY aaa.domains.pk_domain_id;

ALTER TABLE aaa.seq_domains OWNER TO someuser;

and wrote the following stored procedure

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION aaa.is_domain_unlocked(p_domain_id
aaa.domains.pk_domain_id%TYPE)
RETURNS BOOLEAN
AS $$
DECLARE
v_is_unlocked aaa.domains.is_unlocked%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT is_unlocked INTO v_is_unlocked
FROM aaa.domains
WHERE pk_domain_id = p_domain_id;

RETURN v_is_unlocked;

EXCEPTION
WHEN TOO_MANY_ROWS THEN
RETURN FALSE;
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RETURN FALSE;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE;

ALTER FUNCTION aaa.is_domain_unlocked(integer) OWNER TO someuser;

now without any records by calling
SELECT aaa.is_domain_unlocked(1);

I expect to get back a FALSE but instead I get a row with nothing which I
assume is NULL value;
is_domain_locked
------------------

(1 row)

The catch exception doesn't seem to work and I even tried to RAISE EXCEPTION
but I couldn't find any information on how to rethrow an exception.
Throwning any other exception doesn't seem to have any effect.

thank you
Nikolas

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