Re: poll: CHECK TRIGGER?

2012/3/10 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> But then I would have to map all language-specific error reports to some
>> SQL error scheme, which is not only cumbersome but pretty useless.  For
>> example, a Python programmer will be familiar with the typical output
>> that pylint produces and how to fix it.  If we hide that output behind
>> the layer of SQL-ness, that won't make things easier to anyone.
>
> Yeah, this is a good point.  I'm willing to concede that we are not
> close to having a uniform API that could be used for checker functions,
> so maybe what we should do for now is just invent
> plpgsql_check_function(regprocedure).  I'd still like to see the
> question revisited sometime in the future, but it would be appropriate
> to have a few working examples of popular checker functions for
> different languages before we try to invent a common API.

ok, I'll prepare patch

Pavel
>
>                        regards, tom lane