Initial refactoring of plperl.c - draft [PATCH]

From: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
Subject: Initial refactoring of plperl.c - draft [PATCH]
Date: 2009-11-24 16:43:30
Message-ID: 20091124164330.GB48910@timac.local
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I've started work on the enhancements to plperl I outlined on pg-general
(XXX thread)
I have a working implementation of those changes, plus some performance
enhancements, that I'm now re-working into a clean set of tested and
polished patches.

This patch is a first step that doesn't add any extra functionality.
It refactors the internals to make adding the extra functionality
easier (and more clearly visible).

Changes in this patch:

- Changed MULTIPLICITY check from runtime to compiletime.
No loads the large Config module.
- Changed plperl_init_interp() to return new interp
and not alter the global interp_state
- Moved plperl_safe_init() call into check_interp().
- Removed plperl_safe_init_done state variable
as interp_state now covers that role.
- Changed plperl_create_sub() to take a plperl_proc_desc argument.
- Simplified return value handling in plperl_create_sub.
- Adds a test for the effect of the utf8fix function.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the patch.

The next step I plan is to move the large multi-line string literal
macros (PERLBOOT, SAFE_OK etc) into external perl code files.
That'll make refactoring, extending and maintaining that perl
code far simpler.

A $pkglib_path/perl directory seems an appropriate place for this code.
Assuming that's okay, how should I go about creating that directory and
putting files there during build/installation?

I could implement that and include it as an update to this patch, or as
a new patch on top. Which would be preferable?

Tim.

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