Re: alternative to PG_CATCH

On 2019-10-29 17:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2019-10-28 13:45, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> In theory, the do_rethrow variable could conflict with a symbol
>>> declared in the surrounding scope, but that doesn't seem like it's a
>>> problem worth getting worked up about.
>
>> Right. A PG_TRY block also declares other local variables for internal
>> use without much care about namespacing. If it becomes a problem, it's
>> easy to address.
>
> Although we haven't been terribly consistent about it, some of our macros
> address this problem by using local variable names with a leading and/or
> trailing underscore, or otherwise making them names you'd be quite
> unlikely to use in normal code. I suggest doing something similar
> here. (Wouldn't be a bad idea to make PG_TRY's variables follow suit.)

committed with a leading underscore

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