Re: Another issue with invalid XML values

I wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> I was thinking that maybe it's time for this module to hook onto the
>> cleanup stuff for the xact error case; or at least have a check that it
>> has been properly cleaned up elesewhere. Maybe this can be made to work
>> reentrantly if there's a global var holding the current context, and it
>> contains a link to the next one up the stack. At least, my impression
>> is that the PG_TRY blocks are already messy.

> Yeah, that's another way we could go. But I'm not sure how well it
> would interact with potential third-party modules setting up their own
> libxml error handlers. Anybody have a thought about that?

I thought a bit more about this, and realized that there's a big
obstacle to getting rid of the PG_TRY blocks this way: most of them are
responsible for telling libxml to free some data structures, not just
restoring the error handler state. We can't drop that aspect without
introducing session-lifespan memory leaks.

In principle we could expand the responsibilities of a
transaction-cleanup hook to include freeing data structures as well as
restoring error handlers, but the idea seems a lot messier and hence
less attractive than it did before. I was ready to get rid of the
PG_TRY blocks until I came across this problem, but now I think I'll
stick with them.

regards, tom lane