Re: What happened to the is_<type> family of functions proposal?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Colin 't Hart" <colinthart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: What happened to the is_<type> family of functions proposal?
Date: 2010-09-21 23:35:25
Message-ID: 11813.1285112125@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 01:05:39 Tom Lane wrote:
>> Just for starters, what of a palloc() failure?

> Uhm. Isnt a palloc failure a really, really bad example because it will kill
> the session anyway? FATAL+ is not relevant in that context, right?

Huh? It's not fatal, just elog(ERROR, "out of memory").

regards, tom lane

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