Re: BUG #5066: plperl issues with perl_destruct() and END blocks

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5066: plperl issues with perl_destruct() and END blocks
Date: 2009-09-21 16:06:30
Message-ID: 20090921160630.GF29793@alvh.no-ip.org
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David Fetter escribió:

> Taken literally, that would mean, "the last action before the backend
> exits," but at least to me, that sounds troubling for the same reasons
> that "end of transaction" triggers do. What happens when there are
> two different END blocks in a session?

The manual is clear that both are executed.

> With connection poolers, backends can last quite awhile. Is it OK for
> the END block to run hours after the rest of the code?

This is an interesting point -- should END blocks be called on DISCARD ALL?

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