On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44, Alexey Klyukin <al...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 15:48, Alex Hunsaker <bada...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 13:04, Alexey Klyukin <al...@commandprompt.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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). >>>> >>>> Find attached a proof of concept that modifies Alexey's patch to do >>>> the above (using the overload example I and others posted). >>> [ ... ] >>>> Thoughts? Should I polish this a bit more? Or do we like the GUC better? >>> >>> So its been over a week with no comments. ISTM there were more people >>> against adding yet another GUC. Barring objection ill finish the >>> missing parts of the POC patch I posted and submit that. >> >> I've played with that patch just today. I found a problem with it, when I >> tried to use the array in a string context the backend segfaulted with: >> "WARNING: Deep recursion on subroutine "main::encode_array_literal" at -e >> line 74" just before the segfault. I think the problem is in the regexp >> check in 'encode_array_literal' (it's obviously reversed comparing with the >> original one), > > Yeah, I noticed that after I sent it out :(. > >> but it still segfaults after I fixed that. > > I seem to recall fixing this post email as well... Can you provide the > function that broke so I can double check? (Or was it part of the > regression test?)
Sure, it's really simple (and the plperl_array regressions tests exposes this problem as well): CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_array(INTEGER[]) RETURNS TEXT AS $$ my $array = shift; print "$array"."\n"; $$ LANGUAGE plperl; /A I will look into this problem tomorrow unless you'll be lucky to fix it before that. Thank you for the review and your patch. -- 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