pg_result_error does NOT work with prepared statements.(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
pg_result_error — Возвращает сообщение об ошибке, связанное с запросом результата
   pg_result_error() возвращает сообщение о любой
   ошибке, связанное с экземпляром result.
   Таким образом, возможно получить более верное сообщение об ошибке,
   чем при использовании pg_last_error().
  
Функция pg_result_error_field() может дать гораздо более подробную информацию об ошибке, чем pg_result_error().
   Так как pg_query() возвращает false в случае возникновения ошибки запроса,
   необходимо использовать pg_send_query() и
   pg_get_result() для получения дескриптора результата.
  
resultЭкземпляр класса PgSql\Result, который возвращают функции pg_query(), pg_query_params() или pg_execute() (среди прочего).
   Возвращает строку (string). Возвращает пустую строку, если нет ошибки.
   Если же есть ошибка, не связанная с параметром result, то возвращается false.
  
| Версия | Описание | 
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 | Параметр resultтеперь ожидает экземпляр класса
  PgSql\Result; раньше параметр ожидал ресурс (resource). | 
Пример #1 Пример использования pg_result_error()
<?php
  $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect");
  if (!pg_connection_busy($dbconn)) {
      pg_send_query($dbconn, "select * from doesnotexist;");
  }
  $res1 = pg_get_result($dbconn);
  echo pg_result_error($res1);
?>
So considering pg_query and pg_query_params don't return results on error, and that this would be an extremely handy thing to have, I just ended up writing my own functions wrapping the pg_send_* ones to work like the aforementionned two <em>should</em>. There's not a whole lot of code to them, the comments are mostly references from the libPQ and PHP doc, to explain the behavior.
<?php
class PostgresConnectionError extends Exception {
    public function __construct($last_error) {
        parent::__construct($message);
    }
}
function pg_send_query_sync($connection, string $query) {
    // This function cannot work if any query is already running for that connection because the results may then get mixed up.
    assert(pg_get_result($connection) === false);
    $dispatch_ok = pg_send_query($connection, $query);
    // The *only* case where nothing can be returned, when the connection fails to dispatch the initial query.
    if (!$dispatch_ok) throw new PostgresConnectionError(pg_last_error($connection));
    // From the libPQ doc : "PQgetResult must be called repeatedly until it returns a null pointer, indicating that the command is done."
    // In the case of pg_query/PQExec, which we're trying to emulate:
    // "Note however that the returned PGresult structure describes only the result of the last command executed from the string."
    // "Should one of the commands fail, processing of the string stops with it and the returned PGresult describes the error condition."
    while ($result = pg_get_result($connection)) {
        // Drain all results on the connection and only return the last one.
        if ($last_result) pg_free_result($last_result);
        $last_result = $result;
    }
    assert(is_resource($result) && get_resource_type($result) === "pgsql result");
    return $last_result;
}
function pg_send_query_params_sync($connection, string $query, array $params) {
    // This function cannot work if any query is already running for that connection because the results may then get mixed up.
    assert(pg_get_result($connection) === false);
    $dispatch_ok = pg_send_query_params($connection, $query, $params);
    // The *only* case where nothing can be returned, when the connection fails to dispatch the initial query.
    if (!$dispatch_ok) throw new PostgresConnectionError(pg_last_error($connection));
    // From the libPQ doc : "PQgetResult must be called repeatedly until it returns a null pointer, indicating that the command is done."
    
    // In the case of pg_query_params/PQExecParams, which we're trying to emulate:
    // "Unlike PQexec, PQexecParams allows at most one SQL command in the given string. (There can be semicolons in it, but not more than one nonempty command.)"
    while ($result = pg_get_result($connection)) {
        // Drain all results on the connection, although there should only be one.
        if ($last_result) pg_free_result($last_result);
        $last_result = $result;
    }
    assert(is_resource($result) && get_resource_type($result) === "pgsql result");
    return $last_result;
}You can  use pg_set_error_verbosity() to retrieve SQLSTATUS from pg_last_error().Because pg_query() returns FALSE if the query fails, you must must use pg_send_query() and pg_get_result() to get the result handle.
PostgreSQL 7.4 introduced a new function called PQresultErrorField() that can be used to get SQLSTATE code from a query, which is far more useful than the error string returned from pg_result_error().
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-exec.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/errcodes-appendix.html
Here's a patch that adds the pg_result_error_field() function to PHP:
http://collapsed.net/patches/php-4.3.5RC3-pg_result_error_field.diff
(To apply the patch cd into your php-4.3.5RC directory and type: patch -p1 </path/to/php-4.3.5RC3-pg_result_error_field.diff)
Example code:
<?php
  if(!($db = pg_connect("user=foo password=bar dbname=foobar")))
    die("pg_connect");
  if(!pg_send_query($db, "SELECT foo FROM bar"))
    die("pg_send_query");
  if(!($result = pg_get_result($db)))
    die("pg_get_result");
  echo(pg_result_error($result) . "<br />\n");
  /* only available if you have patched php */
  if(function_exists("pg_result_error_field"))
  {
    $fieldcode = array(
      "PGSQL_DIAG_SEVERITY",        "PGSQL_DIAG_SQLSTATE",
      "PGSQL_DIAG_MESSAGE_PRIMARY", "PGSQL_DIAG_MESSAGE_DETAIL",
      "PGSQL_DIAG_MESSAGE_HINT",    "PGSQL_DIAG_STATEMENT_POSITION",
      "PGSQL_DIAG_CONTEXT",         "PGSQL_DIAG_SOURCE_FILE",
      "PGSQL_DIAG_SOURCE_LINE",     "PGSQL_DIAG_SOURCE_FUNCTION");
    foreach($fieldcode as $fcode)
    {
      printf("%s: %s<br />\n",
        $fcode,
        pg_result_error_field($result, constant($fcode)));
    }
    pg_free_result($result);
  }
?>
<?php pg_result_error_field($result, PGSQL_DIAG_SQLSTATE); ?>
Returns the SQLSTATE code.