Re: "A block containing an EXCEPTION clause is significantly more expensive to enter and exit than a block without one" - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: "A block containing an EXCEPTION clause is significantly more expensive to enter and exit than a block without one"
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Msg-id D1837AA1-ADF0-4236-8BEC-08A1357A77AE@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: "A block containing an EXCEPTION clause is significantly more expensive to enter and exit than a block without one"  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: "A block containing an EXCEPTION clause is significantly more expensive to enter and exit than a block without one"  (Bryn Llewellyn <bryn@yugabyte.com>)
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> On Jun 12, 2022, at 23:07, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> The lazy implementation theoretically can be possible, but why?

Isn't one of the reasons for the savepoint (in fact, the principal reason) to reset the connection back to non-error
stateso that execution can continue?  In that case, it really does need to create the savepoint at the start of the
block,regardless of what's in it, since any statement can raise an error. 


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