RE: [HACKERS] how to deal with sparse/to-be populated tables

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> [mailto:owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> 
> Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> > Hmm. Doesn't PostgreSQL have a big list of error codes? I don't think
> > it does, I've never seen one. There should be a way to get error
> > codes without comparing strings. Should this be on the TODO?
> 
> It doesn't, there should, and it already is ;-)
> 

Doens't the following TODO imply it ?

* Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages

Many people have complained about it.
However,it seems not effective without a functionality of statement
level rollback.  AFAIK,Vadim has planed it together with savepoint
functionality.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp