Re: merging some features from plpgsql2 project

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> 2017-01-03 20:54 GMT+01:00 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> > 2017-01-03 16:23 GMT+01:00 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> >> *) Would also like to have a FINALLY block
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>> > What you can do there?
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>> This is syntax sugar so you don't need second begin/end/exception
>> block or duplicated code. It separates error handling from cleanup.
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>> BEGIN
>> PERFORM dblink_connect(...
>> <risky_stuff>
>> EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
>> <log/handle error>
>> FINALLY
>> PERFORM dblink_disconnect(...
>> END;
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> Does know somebody this pattern from Ada or PL/SQL?

I guess probably not. It's a standard pattern in modern EH languages
(for example, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dszsf989.aspx)

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>> >> *) Some user visible mechanic other than forcing SQL through EXECUTE
>> >> to be able to control plan caching would be useful.
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>> > fully agree.
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>> > Have you some ideas?
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>> > What about plpgsql option (function scope) -- WITHOUT-PLAN-CACHE - any
>> > non
>> > trivial plans will not be cached - and evaluated as parametrized query
>> > only.
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>> I have slight preference for syntax marker for each query, similar to
>> INTO. Maybe 'UNCACHED'?
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> I am not clean opinion - the statement level is nice, but what readability?
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> SELECT UNCACHED t.a, t.b FROM INTO a,b;

Yeah -- this is pretty ugly admittedly. Maybe control directive is
ok, as long as you can set it mid function?

merlin