On 10/2/18 8:45 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 09/25/2018 03:58 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
>> On 09/25/2018 01:50 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
>>> On 08/08/2018 11:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> =?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <nore...@postgresql.org> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As mentioned on the nearby thread, will fix. I suppose this ought to be
>>> back-patched.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> Maybe a note, something like this?
>>> ------------
>>> When asynchronous queries are initiated by dblink_send_query(), the
>>> error message associated with the connection might not get updated until
>>> the server's response message is consumed. This typically means that
>>> dblink_is_busy() or dblink_get_result() should be called prior to
>>> dblink_error_message(), so that any error generated by the asynchronous
>>> query() will be visible.
>>> ------------
>> 
>> And now with the corresponding patch attached.
>> 
>> Thoughts/comments?
> 
> 
> Going once, going twice, ...
> (if no complaints will commit soon)


Well, maybe not so soon,  but now done.

Joe

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