Re: Frontend error logging style

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:02 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 02:40:10PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Having different frontend utilities each invent their own
> > slightly-different way of doing this makes it hard to reuse code, and
> > hard to understand code. We need to find ways to make it more uniform,
> > not just observe that it isn't uniform today and give up.
>
> I agree with this sentiment, but this is a bit more complex than just
> calling exit() with pg_log_fatal(), no? pg_dump likes playing a lot
> with its exit_nicely(), meaning that we may want to allow frontends to
> plug in callbacks.

Yep.

I think we need frontend facilities that look like the backend
facilities, so try/catch blocks, on-exit callbacks, and whatever else
there is. Otherwise code reuse is going to continue to be annoying.

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Robert Haas
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