Re: try/catch macros for Postgres backend

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:19:17PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

Very cool and interesting idea.

> Does anyone have a problem with this macro syntax? The try/catch names
> are stolen from Java, so I'm figuring they won't terribly surprise any
> modern programmer, but I'm open to different names if anyone has a
> better idea.

The only comment I have so far is that Java and Python appear to have
settled on try/catch/finally blocks. Maybe we need three blocks too,
for handling more complex scenarios.

(The "finally" block, AFAIU, is executed whether an exception was raised
or not, so it serves as cleanup for try and catch blocks. Somebody more
knowledgeable in this OO matters may enlighten us better?)

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