Re: POC PATCH: copy from ... exceptions to: (was Re: VLDB Features)

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:16 AM torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2024-01-18 10:10, jian he wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 6:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> > Kyotaro-san's suggestion isn't bad, though I might shorten it to
> >> > error_action {error|ignore|log} (or perhaps "stop" instead of "error")?
> >> > You will need a separate parameter anyway to specify the destination
> >> > of "log", unless "none" became an illegal table name when I wasn't
> >> > looking. I don't buy that one parameter that has some special values
> >> > while other values could be names will be a good design. Moreover,
> >> > what if we want to support (say) log-to-file along with log-to-table?
> >> > Trying to distinguish a file name from a table name without any other
> >> > context seems impossible.
> >>
> >> I've been thinking we can add more values to this option to log errors
> >> not only to the server logs but also to the error table (not sure
> >> details but I imagined an error table is created for each table on
> >> error), without an additional option for the destination name. The
> >> values would be like error_action {error|ignore|save-logs|save-table}.
> >>
> >
> > another idea:
> > on_error {error|ignore|other_future_option}
> > if not specified then by default ERROR.
> > You can also specify ERROR or IGNORE for now.
> >
> > I agree, the parameter "error_action" is better than "location".
>
> I'm not sure whether error_action or on_error is better, but either way
> "error_action error" and "on_error error" seems a bit odd to me.
> I feel "stop" is better for both cases as Tom suggested.

OK. What about this?
on_error {stop|ignore|other_future_option}
where other_future_option might be compound like "file 'copy.log'" or
"table 'copy_log'".

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov