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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
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Subject: Re: trap for any exception
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Sabin Coanda wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to build a PL/pgSQL function which is able to generic trap any
> error, and interpret it.
>
> I read 37.7.5. Trapping Errors, but the syntax requires to write explicitly
> the exception condition, and not a generic one.
>
> Is it possible to build a generic trap or do you know a workaround for that
> ?

Won't OTHERS catch most of what you want?