On 3/17/17 13:24, Jeff Janes wrote: > And isn't it unhelpful to have the pageinspect module throw errors, > rather than returning a dummy value to indicate there was an error?
Even if one agreed with that premise, it would be hard to satisfy reliably, because the user-facing pageinspect functions might reach into lower-level code to do some of the decoding, which are free to error out. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers