Re: alternative to PG_CATCH

On 2018-12-14 16:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't especially like the MACRO({...}) proposal, because it looks way
> too much like gcc's special syntax for "statement expressions".  If we
> have to go this way, I'd rather see if MACRO((...)) can be made to work.
> But I question your assumption that we have to have two physical copies
> of the "finally" code.  There's nothing wrong with implementing this
> sort of infrastructure with some goto's, or whatever else we have to
> have to make it work.  Also, it'd look more natural as an extension
> to the existing PG_TRY infrastructure if the source code were like
> 
>     PG_TRY();
>     {
>         ...
>     }
>     PG_FINALLY();
>     {
>         ...
>     }
>     PG_END_TRY();

Here is a new implementation that works just like that.

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