On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:07 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> I have not, but I'm still going to stand by that point. It is not
> credible that the code we will want to share between frontend and
> backend will never contain any user-facing error reports.
It's hard to refute a statement this general; it ca
Robert Haas writes:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:50 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>> What it sounds to me like you want to do is implement (some equivalent of)
>> elog() but not ereport() for this environment. I'm going to resist that
>> pretty strongly, because I think it will lead directly to abuse of el
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:50 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> So? elog() is just a specific degenerate case of ereport(). If we have
> a way to implement ereport() on frontend side then we can surely do
> elog() too.
I suppose that's true.
> What it sounds to me like you want to do is implement (some equ
Robert Haas writes:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>> What I keep thinking is that we should stick with ereport() as the
>> reporting notation, and invent a frontend-side implementation of it
>> that covers the cases you mention (ie WARNING and ERROR ... and maybe
>> DEBUG?),
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> > Something like:
> > #ifdef FRONTEND
> > #define pg_croak(...) do { pg_log_fatal(__VA_ARGS__); exit(1) } while (0)
> > #define pg_carp(...) pg_log_warning(__VA_ARGS__);
> > #else
> > #define pg_croak(...) elog(ERROR, __VA_ARGS__)
> > #define pg_c
Robert Haas writes:
> Probably the thorniest problem is the backend's widespread dependence
> on ereport() and elog(). Now, it would not be enormously difficult to
> code up something that will sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() in front-end
> code just as we do in backend code, but I think it would be
Hi,
Recent developments on the "backup manifest" thread and others have
caused me to take an interest in making more code that has
historically been backend-only accessible in frontend environments
also. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in having often wished for more
backend-only facilities to be av
