Re: C exception code

Oh, well. At least I asked. :-)

>
> > Are we interested in adding Try/Catch exception code to PostgreSQL.
> > This looks interesting:
> >
> > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/cexcept/
>
> IMHO using the C pre-processor to make C look like some other language:
>
> - makes the code harder to read as readers have to learn the dialect
> first
>
> - makes the code harder to debug, since debugging tools don't know the
> dialect but only the C it is translated into
>
> This exception implementation has the obvious(?) problem of using
> setjump()/longjmp() where sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp() would probably be
> necessary for postgresql.
>
> There are places too where this implementation would just plain not
> work and so couldn't be used: setjmp(), longjmp(), sigsetjump(), and
> siglongjmp() are not async safe signal functions and so can't be
> called in signal handlers, for a start.
>
> Regards,
>
> Giles
>
>
>
>

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