Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key bugs (Re: "New" bug?? Serious - crashes backend.)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, ryan <ryan@bel.bc.ca>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-11T16:03:57Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
> I like a different routine name better than a check-or-no-check > parameter. If you invoke the no-check case then you *MUST* have a check > for failure return --- forgetting to do this is exactly the problem. > So I think it should be harder to get at the no-check case, and you > should have to write something that reminds you that the routine is not > checking for you. Thus "heap_open_noerr" (I'm not particularly wedded > to that suffix, though, if anyone has a better idea for what to call > it). A parameter would only be useful if the same calling code might > reasonably do different things at different times --- but either there's > a check following the call, or there's not. OK. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026