Re: Assert for frontend programs?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-14T16:33:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 14.12.2012 17:54, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I think psql already has a "psql_assert".

> psql_assert looks like this:

> #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
> #include <assert.h>
> #define psql_assert(p) assert(p)
> #else
> ...

> On my Linux system, a failure looks like this:

> ~$ ./a.out
> a.out: a.c:5: main: Assertion `1==2' failed.
> Aborted

> That seems fine to me.

Works for me.  So just rename that to Assert() and move it into
postgres-fe.h?

			regards, tom lane