On 2017-03-01 11:18:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2016-12-08 13:34:41 -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm wondering if it's not time for $subject: > >> - V0 causes confusion / weird crashes when PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 was > >> forgotten > >> - They have us keep weird hacks around just for the sake of testing V0 > >> - they actually cost performance, because we have to zero initialize > >> Datums, even if > >> the corresponding isnull marker is set. > >> - they allow to call arbitrary functions pretty easily > >> > >> I don't see any reason to keep them around. If seriously doubt anybody > >> is using them seriously in anything but error. > > I find these arguments pretty weak. In particular I don't buy your claim > that we could stop zero-initializing Datums, because I think we'd just > start getting valgrind complaints if we did.
I tink we've litigated that in a side-thread - I'm not planning to change any policy around this. Perhaps I shouldn't have quoted the original start of the thread... At this point I primarily am concerned about a) the way they're confusing for authors, by causing spurious crashes b) at some point not too far away in the future I want to introduce a faster interface, and I don't want unnecessarily many around. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
