On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Denisa Cirstescu < denisa.cirste...@tangoe.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom, > > You said that trapping an *arbitrary* exception is a “fairly expensive > mechanism”. > I suppose a better (though maybe not perfectly accurate) wording is that setting up the pl/pgsql execution layer to trap "arbitrary SQL-layer exceptions" is fairly expensive. Even if the user specifies specific errors the error handling mechanism in pl/pgsql is code for generic (arbitrary) errors being given to it. David J.