Re: Latest on CITEXT 2.0

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Latest on CITEXT 2.0
Date: 2008-06-26 16:19:56
Message-ID: 20080626161956.GC4396@alvh.no-ip.org
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David E. Wheeler wrote:

> The operator functions *do* use PG_FREE_IF_COPY(). So I'm guessing it's
> these functions you're talking about. However, my implementation just
> looks like this:
>
> Datum citext_ne (PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {
> // Fast path for different-length inputs. Okay for canonical
> equivalence?
> if (VARSIZE(PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0)) != VARSIZE(PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(1)))
> PG_RETURN_BOOL( 1 );
> PG_RETURN_BOOL( citextcmp( PG_ARGS ) != 0 );
> }

PG_GETARG_TEXT_P can detoast the datum, which creates a copy.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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