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The idea behind SPI_push was to allow transitioning back into an "unconnected" state when a SPI-using procedure calls unrelated code that might or might not invoke SPI. That sounds good, but in practice the only thing it does for us is to catch cases where a called SPI-using function forgets to call SPI_connect --- which is a highly improbable failure mode, since it would be exposed immediately by direct testing of said function. As against that, we've had multiple bugs induced by forgetting to call SPI_push/SPI_pop around code that might invoke SPI-using functions; these are much harder to catch and indeed have gone undetected for years in some cases. And we've had to band-aid around some problems of this ilk by introducing conditional push/pop pairs in some places, which really kind of defeats the purpose altogether; if we can't draw bright lines between connected and unconnected code, what's the point? Hence, get rid of SPI_push[_conditional], SPI_pop[_conditional], and the underlying state variable _SPI_curid. It turns out SPI_restore_connection can go away too, which is a nice side benefit since it was never more than a kluge. Provide no-op macros for the deleted functions so as to avoid an API break for external modules. A side effect of this removal is that SPI_palloc and allied functions no longer permit being called when unconnected; they'll throw an error instead. The apparent usefulness of the previous behavior was a mirage as well, because it was depended on by only a few places (which I fixed in preceding commits), and it posed a risk of allocations being unexpectedly long-lived if someone forgot a SPI_push call. Discussion: <20808.1478481403@sss.pgh.pa.us> |
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