Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays
Date: 2019-08-08 06:10:44
Message-ID: CAMsr+YFE_UgzdMo77k1xSNjzhWmAh_dmW5c3bd_LfZKPeSZeJw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 12:18, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2019-08-08 11:36:44 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > you can only put one <declaration> into the first element of a
> > > for (;;).
> > >
> >
> > Use an anonymous block outer scope? Or if not permitted even by C99
> (which
> > I think it is), a do {...} while (0); hack?
>
> You can't easily - the problem is that there's no real way to add the
> closing }, because that's after the macro.

Ah, right. Hence our

PG_TRY();
{
}
PG_CATCH();
{
}
PG_END_TRY();

construct in all its beauty.

I should've seen that.

--
Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
2ndQuadrant - PostgreSQL Solutions for the Enterprise

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