Re: dblink_error_message return value

On 08/08/2018 11:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>> Documentation says:
> 
>> Return Value
>> Returns last error message, or an empty string if there has been no error in
>> this connection.
>> Which is invalid.
>> Actually it returns 'OK' string if no error was raised.
> 
> Good catch!  The code's quite clear about it, but the SGML docs need
> fixed.


As mentioned on the nearby thread, will fix. I suppose this ought to be
back-patched.


>> Secondly
>> dblink_is_busy must be first called to make dblink_error_message returns an
>> error message. (Tested on 9.6.9)
> 
> Meh.  I see what you're getting at here, I think, but that seems like a
> completely wrong/misleading statement of the issue.  Joe, can you think of
> better phraseology?

Maybe a note, something like this?
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When asynchronous queries are initiated by dblink_send_query(), the
error message associated with the connection might not get updated until
the server's response message is consumed. This typically means that
dblink_is_busy() or dblink_get_result() should be called prior to
dblink_error_message(), so that any error generated by the asynchronous
query() will be visible.
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Joe

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