Tom Lane wrote:
Those cases are for places where the spec defines similar cases under
the error classes "SQL Routine Exception" and "External Routine Exception".
You can blame me for having assumed that plpgsql didn't need to
distinguish these cases.
Well, in and of itself, I agree it is probably better to combine similar
SQLSTATEs into a single logical condition. However, considering the
problem it poses for implementing RAISE with builtin condition names,
IMHO it would be a net win to get rid of it, if we can't find a better
solution.
So I see no backwards-compatibility argument that we can't change
this. How would you want to do it better?
I would just change the mapping from condition names to SQLSTATEs to be
one-to-one. If a client application does need to trap multiple SQLSTATEs
for a logically similar condition, they can always specify "WHEN x OR y
OR ..."
-Neil
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