Re: [PATCH] Add error_on_null() to produce an error if the input is null

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

To: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>

Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-10-22T01:10:06Z

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Bump catalog version for new function error_on_null()
- 2519fa836235 19 (unreleased) landed
Add error_on_null(), checking if the input is the null value
- 2b75c38b707a 19 (unreleased) landed

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 05:16:32PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Why not if this simple solution works for you, using error_on_null()
> as the function name.  I'll double-check the whole, probably tomorrow.

Applied after a couple of tweaks applied to the code (like added pg_*
to the source function name) and the docs.

And of course I forgot a catversion bump..
--
Michael