On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:02 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 02:40:10PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > > Having different frontend utilities each invent their own > > slightly-different way of doing this makes it hard to reuse code, and > > hard to understand code. We need to find ways to make it more uniform, > > not just observe that it isn't uniform today and give up. > > I agree with this sentiment, but this is a bit more complex than just > calling exit() with pg_log_fatal(), no? pg_dump likes playing a lot > with its exit_nicely(), meaning that we may want to allow frontends to > plug in callbacks.
Yep. I think we need frontend facilities that look like the backend facilities, so try/catch blocks, on-exit callbacks, and whatever else there is. Otherwise code reuse is going to continue to be annoying. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
