Thread: Catching internal error ID's to throw custom errors. Is it possib le in PostGreSQL?

I have a lot of plpgsql functions and I would like to catch the original postgresql error and, based on that value, to throw with a raise or something my custom error. In SQL Server, for example, I have the sysmessages table in which I have all the possible values if the original errors. I catch that value (named @@error) and I call a function who have a parameter this value and who will return my custom value. This kind of error treatment permit me to have the same error ID's in Oracle, SQL Server and DB2, using a raise with the same error value. Is it possible to do the same in PostGreSQL using plpgsql language.

Thanks in advanced.

Stefan Ardeleanu
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Stefan.Ardeleanu@siveco.ro wrote:
> I have a lot of plpgsql functions and I would like to catch the original
> postgresql error and, based on that value, to throw with a raise or
> something my custom error.

The section "Trapping Errors" in the plpgsql chapter of the manuals
covers this. Does this not do what you want?

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