[GENERAL] Best Practice when Encounter Invalid Stored Procedure Parameters

[Yan Cheng Cheok]

In c++, whenever we encounter an unexpected parameters, here is what we usually 
did :

bool fun(int i) {
    if (i < 0) { 
        return false;
    }
}

void fun(int i) {
    if (i < 0) { 
        throw std::exception("Invalid parameter");
    }
}

void fun(int i) {
    assert (i >= 0);
}

How about stored procedure? Now, I have the following stored procedure :

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insert_unit(text[], text[])
  RETURNS unit AS
$BODY$DECLARE
    _measurement_types ALIAS FOR $1;
    _measurement_units ALIAS FOR $2;
    _unit unit;
BEGIN
    IF array_upper(_measurement_values, 1) != array_upper(_measurement_units, 
1) THEN
        RAISE NOTICE 'What I should do here to return early???';
    END IF;

May I know what is the good practice to handle invalid parameters? I am using 
libpq to interface with PostgreSQL.

Thanks and Regards
Yan Cheng CHEOK


      


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