On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:52 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: > >> You mean packing both a string representation and a reference to a single SV >> * value? > > Dunno, I'm not a guts guy.
Well, neither me (I haven't used much of the guts api there). > >> I haven't considered that (lack of extensive perlgus-foo) although I think >> that's an interesting idea. One drawback would be that it would require both >> conversion to a string format and to a perl reference, performing >> unnecessary actions during every time arrays are passed to a pl/perl >> function. If there is a strong dislike of the proposed 'compatibility' GUC >> option - I think I can change the existing patch to incorporate array string >> representation into the reference-holding SV quite easily. > > Andrew's objections have merit. So perhaps just add this patch to the commit > fest as is? Already done :) /A -- Alexey Klyukin The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
