Re: try/catch macros for Postgres backend

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:58:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Right. The last bit (FINALLY executes whether or not a CATCH block
> re-throws) seemed too messy to handle in my little macros, so I'm
> planning on leaving it out. But I'm open to the idea if anyone has
> a clever implementation thought.

There's also the alternative of going to C++, of course, which would
give you full native exception handling. Most of this "finally" stuff
will go away when you have destructors, IMHO, and resource cleanups are
a whole lot easier. The main drawback is that stricter rules apply to
gotos and longjumps--but most of those will be "a poor man's exception
handling" anyway.

Jeroen