From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Error-safe user functions
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:07:01 -0500
Message-ID: <3676101.1670342821@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2022-12-06 Tu 09:42, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is any *better* than Safe ... it's longer, less
>> mellifluous, and still subject to misinterpretation. But it's
>> a possible alternative.
> Yeah, I don't think there's terribly much to choose between 'safe' and
> 'noerror' in terms of meaning.
Yeah, I just wanted to throw it out there and see if anyone thought
it was a better idea.
> I originally chose InputFunctionCallContext as a more neutral name in
> case we wanted to be able to pass some other sort of node for the
> context in future.
> Maybe that was a little too forward looking.
I didn't like that because it seemed to convey nothing at all about
the expected behavior.
regards, tom lane
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