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Postgres' standard mechanism for reporting errors (ereport() or elog()) is used for all sorts of error conditions. This means that throwing an exception via ereport(ERROR) requires an expensive transaction or subtransaction abort and cleanup, since the exception catcher dare not make many assumptions about what has gone wrong. There are situations where we would rather have a lighter-weight mechanism for dealing with errors that are known to be safe to recover from without a full transaction cleanup. This commit creates infrastructure to let us adapt existing error-reporting code for that purpose. See the included documentation changes for details. Follow-on commits will provide test code and usage examples. The near-term plan is to convert most if not all datatype input functions to report invalid input "softly". This will enable implementing some SQL/JSON features cleanly and without the cost of subtransactions, and it will also allow creating COPY options to deal with bad input without cancelling the whole COPY. This patch is mostly by me, but it owes very substantial debt to earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, Andrew Dunstan, and Amul Sul. Thanks also to Andres Freund for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034@postgrespro.ru
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.