Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of mié ene 12 16:39:56 -0300 2011:
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> >> [ Id actually vote for _not_ having a compatibility option at all, we
> >> change more major things than this IMHO every major release. (And even
> >> then some major things in minor releases, for example the removal of
> >> Safe.pm) ]
> >
> > I think the main question here is: how loudly is existing code going to
> > break? If the breakage is silent, it's going to be very problematic.
> > If functions fail to run at all, then we can live without the
> > compatibility option.
>
> I suspect it'd be quiet, unfortunately, since there are a bazillion ad hoc implementations of a Perl SQL array parser, and many of them, I suspect, don't complain if the string doesn't look like an SQL array. They would just parse a string like "ARRAY(0x118ee2a0)" and return an empty array, or a NULL.

I kinda doubt that a function failing in that way would pass any
testing.

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