Re: why does plperl cache functions using just a bool for is_trigger

Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-04T20:31:51Z
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  1. Remove unnecessary use of trigger flag to hash plperl functions

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:29, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 13:43, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> So your plan was to have some savepoint before each execute ?
>>
>> How would one rollback the latest transaction ?
>
> It is always rolled back.  Its how plperl works today:
> create or replace function foo() returns int as $$
> eval {
>    spi_exec_query('create table uniq (num int primary key');
>    spi_exec_query('insert into uniq (num) values (1), (1);', 1);
> };

To be clear, there is no reason to have both in an eval {}.  There is
no magic savepoint there.  if 'insert into' fails, the table will
still be created (assuming the transaction is not aborted later of
course).