Re: Cleaning up ERRCODE usage in our XML code

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-24T17:01:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> On 23 Sep 2024, at 19:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Yeah, I looked at that but wasn't sure what to do with it.  We should
>> have validated the decl header when the XML value was created, so if
>> we get here then either the value got corrupted on-disk or in-transit,
>> or something forgot to do that validation, or libxml has changed its
>> mind since then about what's a valid decl.  At least some of those
>> cases are probably legitimately called INTERNAL_ERROR.  I thought for
>> awhile about ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED, but I'm not convinced that's a
>> better fit.

> I agree that it might not be an obvious better fit, but also not an obvious
> worse fit.  It will make it easier to filter on during fleet analysis so I
> would be inclined to change it, but the main value of the patch are other hunks
> so feel free to ignore.

Fair enough.  Pushed with ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED used there.
Thanks again for reviewing.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Neaten up our choices of SQLSTATEs for XML-related errors.