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

On 02/10/2011 08:15 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 08:24, Alexey Klyukin<alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>> What was actually broken in encode_array_literal support of composite types
>>> (it converted perl hashes to the literal composite-type constants, expanding
>>> nested arrays along the way) ? I think it would be a useful extension of the
>>> existing encode_array_literal.
>> Yeah, It does not work because it did not take into account the order
>> of composite columns. It always put them alphabetically by column
>> name. To do it properly we would need to pass in a typid or a column
>> order or something. Ideally we could expose the new
>> plperl_array_to_datum() to plperl functions in some manner.
> Damn, right. Each perl hash corresponds to multiple composite types, different
> by the order of the type elements. Passing the typid sounds like a fair
> requirement (and if it's missing we could assume that the order of columns in
> composites doesn't matter to the caller).
>
> Let me try implementing that as an XS interface to plperl_array_to_datum.

Are you intending this as a completion of the current patch or as 9.2
work? If the former you need to send it in real fast.

cheers

andrew