Re: Sketch of extending error handling for subtransactions in functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>, Guy Decoux <ts(at)moulon(dot)inra(dot)fr>
Subject: Re: Sketch of extending error handling for subtransactions in functions
Date: 2004-07-29 14:44:16
Message-ID: 200407291644.16342.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Sonntag, 25. Juli 2004 01:48 schrieb Tom Lane:
> One issue is that it may break existing PLs that override Warn_restart,
> since the semantics of doing that will have changed a bit. We can
> easily fix the PLs that are in our own CVS, but what are the
> implications for other PLs such as PL/R and PL/SH? Joe, Peter, any
> comments?

PL/sh is OK, but both PL/Ruby and PL/Java play around with Warn_restart.

> I am somewhat tempted to rename the setjmp variable Warn_restart to
> something else, so as to catch any code that is still expecting the
> old behavior (besides, it was never a very good name anyway). On the
> other hand, there may be cases where a PL's code doesn't actually need
> to change, and if so a rename would just break it unnecessarily. Any
> votes which way to jump?

Maybe the authors (in Cc) can comment what support they need.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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