Re: The new try/catch macros - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: The new try/catch macros
Date
Msg-id 20597.1091991245@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to The new try/catch macros  (Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com>)
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Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com> writes:
> 1. You use a do {...} while(0) construct to wrap the whole thing. This 
> actually makes it impossible to write code that does a try/catch within 
> a loop that contains code surrounding it since a continue or break will 
> then end up in the wrong place.

A continue or break exiting the construct would do the wrong thing
anyway, so I don't see that removing the do{} is very helpful.  The
point of having it is to make sure that a try/end try block is
syntactically like a statement, rather than like a { ... } construct.

> 3. IMHO, it's a bit ugly to require parenthesis and semicolons at the 
> end of the macros.

This isn't really open for debate, because if we don't put that there,
pg_indent will go nuts.
        regards, tom lane


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