Re: proposal: enable new error fields in plpgsql (9.4)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail@joh.to>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-01T13:43:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2/1/13 8:00 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2013/2/1 Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail@joh.to>:
>> On 2/1/13 1:47 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>>
>>> now a most "hard" work is done and I would to enable access to new
>>> error fields from plpgsql.
>>
>>
>> Is there a compelling reason why we wouldn't provide these already in 9.3?
> 
> a time for assign to last commitfest is out.
> 
> this patch is relative simple and really close to enhanced error
> fields feature - but depends if some from commiters will have a time
> for commit to 9.3 - so I am expecting primary target 9.4, but I am not
> be angry if it will be commited early.

If we don't have access to those fields on PL/pgSQL, what was the point
of the patch to begin with?  Surely, accessing them from C wasn't the
main use case?