Re: PL/pgSQL, RAISE and error context

On 8/21/13 4:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> writes:
>> By default, PL/pgSQL does not print the error context of a RAISE
>> statement, for example:
>
> It used to do so, in the beginning when we first added context-printing.
> There were complaints that the result was too verbose; for instance if you
> had a RAISE NOTICE inside a loop for progress-monitoring purposes, you'd
> get two lines for every one you wanted. I think if we undid this we'd
> get the same complaints again. I agree that in complicated nests of
> functions the location info is more interesting than it is in trivial
> cases, but that doesn't mean you're not going to hear such complaints from
> people with trivial functions.

They have an option: they can reduce verbosity in their client. I
currently don't have any real options.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja