Re: Disconnect from SPI manager on error

From: RekGRpth <rekgrpth(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disconnect from SPI manager on error
Date: 2019-06-21 04:49:10
Message-ID: CAPgh2mJ7vpgVPf2m=8U0+KNbkD-L4fPXdwytQjKHqfMx1A4wKQ@mail.gmail.com
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>It is not plpgsql's job to clean up after other backend subsystems
during a transaction abort.
But plpgsql do clean up on success! I suggest only do cleanup and on
exception.

чт, 20 июн. 2019 г. в 20:33, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> RekGRpth <rekgrpth(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > A patch fixing this bug
> >
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/15738-21723084f3009ceb%40postgresql.org
>
> I do not think this code change is necessary or appropriate.
> It is not plpgsql's job to clean up after other backend subsystems
> during a transaction abort. Maybe if plpgsql were the only thing
> that invokes spi.c, it would be sane to factorize the responsibility
> this way --- but of course it is not.
>
> The complaint in bug #15738 is 100% bogus, which is probably why
> it was roundly ignored. The quoted C code is just plain wrong
> about how to handle errors inside the backend. In particular,
> SPI_rollback is not even approximately the right thing to do to
> clean up after catching a thrown exception.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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