Re: [PATCHES] possible ecpg vpath build error

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:06:02AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> writes:
> > There's a lot of duplicate code in ecpg.
>
> No kidding :-(. The parser is bad enough but the datatype library is
> an order of magnitude worse. I don't have a great solution at hand
> though. The backend utils/adt/ code gets to rely on the backend's

Neither have I.

> error handling and memory management protocols, which I surely do
> not propose to remove, but how could we keep common sources when
> ecpglib has to work in a far less friendly environment?

We could modify the backend code to use pgtypeslib, but that would cost
at least a little bit of performance I would guess.

Michael
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