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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: dblink_error_message return value
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:57:17 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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=?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <[email protected]> writes:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> Documentation says:

> Return Value
> Returns last error message, or an empty string if there has been no error in
> this connection.
> Which is invalid.
> Actually it returns 'OK' string if no error was raised.

Good catch!  The code's quite clear about it, but the SGML docs need
fixed.

> Secondly
> dblink_is_busy must be first called to make dblink_error_message returns an
> error message. (Tested on 9.6.9)

Meh.  I see what you're getting at here, I think, but that seems like a
completely wrong/misleading statement of the issue.  Joe, can you think of
better phraseology?

			regards, tom lane

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