Re: RAISE concatination/variables in plpgsql

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk>, "'pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-08T00:15:22Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
I wrote:
>> Probably.  And 'format' is even more misleading, since it implies that
>> you write a printf-like format string, which you do not.  The output is
>> just the concatenation of the literal and the variable values.

Ugh.  Should've read the code before pontificating ;-).  The code makes
clear what is quite unclear in the docs:
        /*
         * Occurences of a single % are replaced by the next arguments
         * external representation. Double %'s are left as is so elog()
         * will also don't touch them.
         */
So "format" is appropriate, but the next sentence could use some
improvement.

			regards, tom lane