Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)

From: Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)
Date: 2000-12-26 23:03:42
Message-ID: 20001226180342.A32095@rcfile.org
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On 26 Dec 2000 at 14:41 (-0500), Tom Lane wrote:
| I wrote:
| > ... What I'm thinking about doing is setting typmod of
| > an entire-tuple function argument to sizeof(Pointer), rather than
| > the default -1, to indicate that a pointer representation is being
| > used. Comments, hackers?
|
| Here is a patch to current sources along this line. I have not
| committed it, since I'm not sure it does the job. It doesn't break
| the regress tests on my machine, but does it fix them on Alphas?
| Please apply it locally and let me know what you find.

what I'm seeing now is much the same. FWIW, it looks like we're picking
up the cruft around

functions.c:354 paramLI->value = fcinfo->arg[paramLI->id - 1];

(both of which are type Datum)

i've been in circles trying to figure out where fcinfo->arg is filled.
can you point me toward that?

thanks for your help.
brent

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