| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH] |
| Date: | 2011-01-13 05:12:47 |
| Message-ID: | 9276.1294895567@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> 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.
> 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.
I had supposed that it would be possible to do the string conversion
lazily, ie, only if the string value was actually demanded.
regards, tom lane
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