Improvements to GetErrorContextStack()

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Commit: 9bd0feeba85fae411e01798d5a5d76b70333e38e
Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: 2013-07-25T13:41:55Z
Releases: 9.4.0
Improvements to GetErrorContextStack()

As GetErrorContextStack() borrowed setup and tear-down code from other
places, it was less than clear that it must only be called as a
top-level entry point into the error system and can't be called by an
exception handler (unlike the rest of the error system, which is set up
to be reentrant-safe).

Being called from an exception handler is outside the charter of
GetErrorContextStack(), so add a bit more protection against it,
improve the comments addressing why we have to set up an errordata
stack for this function at all, and add a few more regression tests.

Lack of clarity pointed out by Tom Lane; all bugs are mine.

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/utils/error/elog.c modified +37 −13
src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out modified +52 −10
src/test/regress/sql/plpgsql.sql modified +16 −2