Keep Calm And Panic

The article discusses how panic/recover workflows can improve performance and code organization for an engine's validation rules.

The authors benchmarked the go-mysql-server validation rules with error passing compared to a panic/recover workflow and found that panicking is 20-40% faster for small well-formed queries.

However, it is recommended to use errors for interfaces and reserve panics for sections of code where errors have no impact on the intervening logic.