Re: Refactoring: Use soft error reporting for *_opt_error functions

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

From: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-03T07:34:45Z
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  1. Fix two comments in numeric.c

  2. Switch some numeric-related functions to use soft error reporting

  3. Change pg_lsn_in_internal() to use soft error reporting

On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 07:47, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> The same error message is repeated twice.  How about using some gotos
> and one single ereport instead of two?  The same can be said for
> numeric_div_safe() and numeric_mod_safe(), for the division-by-0
> messages.

In numeric_div_safe() and numeric_mod_safe():

-     * If "have_error" is provided, check for division by zero here
+     * If "escontext" is provided, raise division by zero soft error here
      */
-    if (have_error && (arg2.ndigits == 0 || arg2.digits[0] == 0))
-    {
-        *have_error = true;
-        return NULL;
-    }
+    if (escontext && (arg2.ndigits == 0 || arg2.digits[0] == 0))
+        ereturn(escontext, NULL,
+                errcode(ERRCODE_DIVISION_BY_ZERO),
+                errmsg("division by zero"));

This might as well now be made to check for division-by-zero even if
escontext is NULL.

Regards,
Dean