Re: SQL/JSON: functions

Attached 13th version of the patches:

* Subtransactions in PG_TRY/CATCH in ExecEvalJsonExpr() were made unconditional, regardless of the volatility of expressions.

* PG_TRY/CATCH in ExecEvalExprPassingCaseValue() was removed along with the entire function.

On 15.03.2018 11:08, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

On 14 Mar 2018 17:11, "Alexander Korotkov" <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

On 2018-03-14 07:54:35 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 04:08:01PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > The docs are here
> > https://github.com/obartunov/sqljsondoc/blob/master/README.jsonpath.md
> >
> > It's not easy to write docs for SQL/JSON in xml, so I decided to write in more
> > friendly way. We'll have time to convert it to postgres format.
>
> If you aim at getting a feature committed first without its
> documentation, and getting the docs written after the feature freeze
> using a dedicated open item or such, this is much acceptable in my
> opinion and the CF is running short in time.

Given that this patch still uses PG_TRY/CATCH around as wide paths of
code as a whole ExecEvalExpr() invocation,

 

I agree that we should either use PG_TRY/CATCH over some small and safe

codepaths or surround PG_TRY/CATCH with subtransactions.  PG_TRY/CATCH over

ExecEvalExpr() looks really unacceptable.

basically has gotten no
review, I don't see this going anywhere for v11.

I wouldn't be co categorical at this point.  Patchset is there for about year.

Some parts of code received more of review while some parts receives less.

We can surround all dangerous PG_TRY/CATCH pairs with subtransactions,

tolerate performance penalty and leave further optimizations for future releases.

Agree it's not difficult.

In worst case, we can remove codepaths which use PG_TRY/CATCH and

leave only ERROR ON ERROR behavior of SQL/JSON.

No-no, json user will be really upset on this. Our goal is to be the first relational database with strong standard compliance.