Re: making the backend's json parser work in frontend code

Hi,

On 2020-01-16 14:20:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> writes:
> > The way we handle this in pgBackRest is to put a TRY ... CATCH block in
> > main() to log and exit on any uncaught THROW. That seems like a
> > reasonable way to start here. Without memory contexts that almost
> > certainly will mean memory leaks but I'm not sure how much that matters
> > if the action is to exit immediately.
>
> If that's the expectation, we might as well replace backend ereport(ERROR)
> with something that just prints a message and does exit(1).

Well, the process might still want to do some cleanup of half-finished
work. You'd not need to be resistant against memory leaks to do so, if
followed by an exit. Obviously you can also do all the necessarily
cleanup from within the ereport(ERROR) itself, but that doesn't seem
appealing to me (not composable, harder to reuse for other programs,
etc).

Greetings,

Andres Freund