Re: Checking is TSearch2 query is valid

Ok, this appears to have worked but I have to check for exception
code "OTHERS" because I could not figure out what the actual code
being thrown was. Is there a specific exception code for:

ERROR: no operand in tsearch query: "("

Thanks for the help!

Benjamin

On Sep 9, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Benjamin Arai <me(at)benjaminarai(dot)com> writes:
>> Is there a way to pass a query to PostgreSQL to check if the
>> TSeasrch2 search text is valid? For example,
>> SELECT to_tsquery('default', '!');
>> returns an error. I want to know if there is a way get true/false
>> for the '!' portion of the query?
>
> The generic solution to this type of problem is to write a function
> that
> tries to do whatever-it-is-that-throws-an-error inside a plpgsql
> BEGIN/EXCEPTION block, and catch the errors you are expecting.
>
> regards, tom lane
>