Re: error handling in cast functions for user defined types - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: error handling in cast functions for user defined types
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Msg-id 893.1147740573@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to error handling in cast functions for user defined types  (Don Y <pgsql@DakotaCom.Net>)
Responses Re: error handling in cast functions for user defined types
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Don Y <pgsql@DakotaCom.Net> writes:
> I'm writing a set of casts to/from various user defined
> types.  As is unexpected, there are cases where one
> data type doesn't neatly map to another (for certain
> values).  In these cases I emit an INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE
> or OUT_OF_RANGE error -- depending on the situation.

> But, should I also PG_RETURN_NULL()?

elog(ERROR) doesn't return to your function --- think of it as being
like exit().  So it's pointless to code anything after it.

            regards, tom lane

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