On 3/3/18 00:48, Tom Lane wrote: > I don't think that can possibly work. It would only be safe if, between > the thrower and the catcher, there were no other levels of control > operating according to the normal error-handling rules. But input > functions certainly cannot assume that they are only called by COPY, > so how could they safely throw a "soft error"?
That assumes that throwing a soft error in a context that does not handle it specially is not safe. I'd imagine in such situations the soft error just behaves like a normal exception. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
