Re: Error-safe user functions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:44 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... I guess you didn't read my remarks upthread about regtypein.
>> I do not want to try to make gram.y+scan.l non-error-throwing.

> Huh, for some reason I'm not seeing an email about that. Do you have a link?

In [1] I wrote

>>> I'm a little concerned about the cost-benefit of fixing the reg* types.
>>> The ones that accept type names actually use the core grammar to parse
>>> those.  Now, we probably could fix the grammar to be non-throwing, but
>>> it'd be very invasive and I'm not sure about the performance impact.
>>> It might be best to content ourselves with soft reporting of lookup
>>> failures, as opposed to syntax problems.

            regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1863335.1670783397%40sss.pgh.pa.us