On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:58:54AM +1000, John Hansen wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Actually, having it throw an error would be helpful, because > > then you can find in the application which calls should be > > replaced by the generic runquery() that has to return nothing > > versus the one that has to return a sequence value. So > > porting is a little more involved but more useful in the end. > > Indeed, but my point was that often it is going in the too hard basket. > Not that I disagree, but how do you predetermine which queries would > throw an error if they're built dynamically? Hmm, if your app can build any of them at an arbitrary point, you have a rather serious problem, I'd say. The apps I've seen build either kind at each call site of such runquery(). -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>) "La fuerza no está en los medios físicos sino que reside en una voluntad indomable" (Gandhi) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq