"Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 2/20/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> This seems like a pretty bad idea: if the SPI_connect fails you lose
>> control without having unwound the subtransaction. That's unlikely,
>> but still wrong.
> But if I want the error to reach upper transaction? SPI_connect
> failure does not seem a 'expected' situation to me.
In that case you should put the SPI_connect and later SPI_finish
*outside* the subtransaction and TRY block. And you'll need
SPI_restore_connection I think. This structure would be exactly
parallel to the way pl_exec.c does it.
regards, tom lane