Re: Error handling in plperl and pltcl

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 16:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> You're right.  You can *not* expose those as user-callable operations in
> a PL language.  Consider for example what will happen if the user tries
> to roll back to a savepoint that was established outside your function
> call, or tries to exit the function while still inside a local
> savepoint.  You have to enforce strict nesting of functions and
> subtransactions; therefore it's a lot easier to present an API that
> looks like an exception-block construct (per plpgsql), or that just
> hides the whole deal in the SPI calling interface (as I'm proposing for
> plperl/pltcl).

Hrm, what about a savepoint scoping facility that would be wrapped
around calls to [volatile?] functions to explicitly enforce these
regulations?

[...Poking around the archives a bit...]

[Or do I mean savepoint levels?]:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-07/msg00505.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-09/msg00569.php

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Regards,       James William Pye