Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkbJJ-0008Fm-VO for pgsql-sql@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:46:10 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkbJJ-00074X-DU for pgsql-sql@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:46:09 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkbJI-00074A-M1 for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:46:08 +0000 Received: from smtprelay0050.b.hostedemail.com ([64.98.42.50] helo=smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkbJ9-0005cH-FK for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:46:06 +0000 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.248.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.248]) by smtprelay05.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930A132B051; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:45:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 616C76686572726540616C76682E6E6F2D69702E6F7267 X-Spam-Summary: 50, 0, 0, , d41d8cd98f00b204, alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org, :::::, RULES_HIT:41:355:379:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1263:1277:1311:1312:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1519:1534:1539:1568:1593:1594:1595:1596:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2525:2560:2563:2682:2685:2828:2829:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3865:3867:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4605:4659:5007:6119:6261:7903:9025:9121:10004:10400:10848:11232:11256:11257:11658:11914:12043:12296:12517:12519:12663:13069:13095:13181:13229:13311:13357:13894:13895:21080, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:fn, MSBL:0, DNSBL:none, Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: angle95_6e51519f6f959 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1798 Received: from alvin.alvh.no-ip.org (unknown [186.11.228.224]) (Authenticated sender: alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org) by omf01.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by alvin.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B25D068E; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:46:35 -0300 (CLST) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:46:35 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Shawn Gennaria Cc: Adrian Klaver , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: How to determine offending column for insert exceptions Message-ID: <20150421164635.GE4369@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <553665BC.7030400@aklaver.com> <55366EFD.3020908@aklaver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-sql Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org Shawn Gennaria wrote: > OK, I'm looking at > www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-EXCEPTION-DIAGNOSTICS-VALUES > which I completely missed before. This sounds like my answer, but it's not > returning anything when I try to extract the COLUMN_NAME. As far as I recall, COLUMN_NAME is new in 9.4. If you're trying with an earlier version, you can't get that info other than by parsing the error message string. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql