Re: Syntax decisions for pl/pgsql RAISE extension

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Syntax decisions for pl/pgsql RAISE extension
Date: 2008-05-12 18:30:20
Message-ID: 23723.1210617020@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2008/5/12 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> It would get less annoying if we allowed user-declared exception names.

> Tom, it's exactly like my patch that you rejected two years ago.

Uh, no, not "exactly like" --- that patch doesn't have anything to do
with the SQL/PSM syntax, and not much with the SQL/PSM semantics.
As I read the spec, a condition name isn't a variable and so you can't
do runtime assignment to it (and unlike Neil, I don't think you should
be able to do so).

regards, tom lane

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