On 9/20/17 6:26 AM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > >> On 20 September 2017 at 06:36, David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> I just use: >>> >>> $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {Carp::confess @_}; > > That is the basic idea behind both Carp::Always and Devel::Confess, but > they also avoid breaking non-string exceptions (references and objects) > being thrown and caught. Devel::Confess jumps through even more hoops > to add backtraces to these without breaking code catching them.
I see. My object exceptions are always confessed so this code is just to catch random die's from parts of the code I can't control. I have never seen one of them throw a non-string exception before. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers