Re: How to determine offending column for insert exceptions

Glad to hear it's here just in time.  I am using 9.4, though, so I wish I could figure out why it's returning NULL when I use it.  And the error message string doesn't contain any column name to parse in my output.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

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.