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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2003-04-24 21:16:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2003-04-24 21:16:45 +0000 |
| commit | f690920a752fa8e59dc9536dd14194b2141163d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fdd5e79110455c7857783e04f2d716c2a6a0c52 /doc/src | |
| parent | a91c5be6a47349d87068680c80839aae76304285 (diff) | |
Infrastructure for upgraded error reporting mechanism. elog.c is
rewritten and the protocol is changed, but most elog calls are still
elog calls. Also, we need to contemplate mechanisms for controlling
all this functionality --- eg, how much stuff should appear in the
postmaster log? And what API should libpq expose for it?
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml index 52d2a60c3b2..7b5f9593a98 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml,v 1.29 2003/04/22 00:08:06 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml,v 1.30 2003/04/24 21:16:42 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="protocol"> <title>Frontend/Backend Protocol</title> @@ -3863,6 +3863,14 @@ PasswordMessage now has a type byte. </para> <para> +ErrorResponse and NoticeResponse ('<literal>E</>' and '<literal>N</>') +messages now contain multiple fields, from which the client code may +assemble an error message of the desired level of verbosity. Note that +individual fields will typically not end with a newline, whereas the single +string sent in the older protocol always did. +</para> + +<para> COPY data is now encapsulated into CopyData and CopyDone messages. There is a well-defined way to recover from errors during COPY. The special <quote><literal>\.</></quote> last line is not needed anymore, and is not sent |