Re: Mention column name in error messages

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Franck Verrot <franck@verrot.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> What seems more likely to lead to a usable patch is to arrange for the
>> extra information you want to be emitted as error "context", via an error
>> context callback that gets installed at the right times.  ...
>> ...
>> with no need for int8in to be directly aware of the context.  You should
>> try adapting that methodology for the cases you're worried about.
>
>
> Hi Tom (and others),
>
> Sorry it took so long for me to follow up on this, hopefully I found a
> couple
> a hours today to try writing another patch.
>
> In any case, thanks for reviewing my first attempt and taking time to write
> such a detailed critique... I've learned a lot!
>
> I am now using the error context callback stack. The current column name
> and column type are passed to the callback packed inside  a new structure
> of type "TransformExprState".
> Those information are then passed to `errhint` and will be presented to the
> user later on (in case of coercion failure).
>
>
> Please find the WIP patch attached.
> (I've pushed the patch on my GH fork[1] too).

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