Re: contrib/ intarray, ltree, intagg broken(?) by array

We'll be back to work next week and look into code.

Oleg
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Can someone address the intagg issue here, or is the code OK?
>
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joe Conway and I have just committed some changes in the internal
> > representation of Postgres arrays: an element-type-OID field is added to
> > the array header, and alignment calculations are now done the same way
> > as in ordinary tuple storage, instead of taking shortcuts. I believe
> > that these changes need to be reflected into the intarray, ltree, and
> > intagg contrib modules.
> >
> > intarray and ltree both seem to be mapping their own declarations onto
> > arrays using largely-similar code. But while intarray fails its
> > regression test, I find ltree still passes. So I'm confused about what
> > that code is really doing and don't want to touch it.
> >
> > I tried to fix intagg, but since there is no regression test for it
> > I'm unsure whether it's okay.
> >
> > Could you folks take a look at CVS tip and see what changes are needed,
> > if any?
> >
> > In the longer run, it might be possible to improve these routines to be
> > array-type-polymorphic using the new features. But with the 7.3 beta
> > date nearly upon us, I'd counsel first making the existing functionality
> > work again...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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Regards,
Oleg
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