Perfect. Thanks for the pointer, Andres, that's exactly what I was looking for.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:28 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
Hi,
On 2018-10-15 13:21:04 -0400, James Coleman wrote: > This my first real foray into the Postgres codebase, so an beginner > question: I noticed that existing C functions in pageinspect often do error > checking and then report the error with ereport but still continue on to > execute the rest of the function instead of early returning. Is this > standard practice? Or should I be reporting the error and then cleaning up > and returning rather than continuing to execute?
ereport basically throws an exception when elevel >= ERROR. I suggest looking at elog.h's comments above elog and PG_TRY().
