Re: Enhancing Memory Context Statistics Reporting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that doesn't generally happen. There's promotion to FATAL if
> the top-level sigsetjmp() hasn't yet run (c.f. the check for
> PG_exception_stack in errstart()), but once it has been reached, it stays
> configured.

All right, then I guess I don't fully understand how the
error-outside-of-a-transaction case is handled. But I still think that
code like this needs to run in a transaction to avoid unexpected and
undesirable results. Do you see it differently?

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