No, I don't see any particular risk there. The places that might throw
ERRCODE_INVALID_XML_DOCUMENT are sufficiently few (as in, exactly one,
in this usage) that we can have reasonable confidence we know what the
system state is when we catch that error.
Hmmm, I was writing some code in which I happened to hold a LWLock when this function was called. The first catch/rethrow cleaned up the InterruptHoldoffCount value. A subsequent release of that LWLock tripped up the (Assert(InterruptHoldoffCount > 0);) inside RESUME_INTERRUPTS().
I know holding an lwlock like this might not be a good idea, but this behavior just got me thinking about other probable issues.
Regards,
Nikhils
> A better way would have been to modify xml_parse to take an additional
> boolean argument "to_rethrow" and not to rethrow if that is false?
We could do that, but it would greatly complicate xml_parse IMO, since
it still needs its own PG_TRY block to handle other error cases, and
only one of those error cases ought to optionally return failure instead
of re-throwing.
regards, tom lane