Re: idea, proposal: only preloadable libraries (conditional load)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: idea, proposal: only preloadable libraries (conditional load)
Date: 2009-03-11 17:25:20
Message-ID: 400.1236792320@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2009/3/11 Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>> I remember I had some differences between the way loading occurs at
>> session start and as a result of a LOAD command. I think there's
>> probably already a way of doing this - probably by checking for
>> something that would only be there *after* having read reloadable
>> libraries but before main session starts.

> I can test debug_query_string, but main problem is impossibility throw
> exception inside PG_init.

If we can't support throwing an error there, I think we need to fix that.
There's no way a "precheck" function can completely guarantee that no
error will happen in the real "do it" function; at least not for
interesting values of "do it".

regards, tom lane

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