Re: The new try/catch macros

Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com> writes:
> > 1. You use a do {...} while(0) construct to wrap the whole thing. This 
> > actually makes it impossible to write code that does a try/catch within 
> > a loop that contains code surrounding it since a continue or break will 
> > then end up in the wrong place.
> 
> A continue or break exiting the construct would do the wrong thing
> anyway, so I don't see that removing the do{} is very helpful.  The
> point of having it is to make sure that a try/end try block is
> syntactically like a statement, rather than like a { ... } construct.
> 
> > 3. IMHO, it's a bit ugly to require parenthesis and semicolons at the 
> > end of the macros.
> 
> This isn't really open for debate, because if we don't put that there,
> pg_indent will go nuts.
> 

Could we just teach pgindent about these macros?

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