Re: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names
Date: 2000-11-17 16:14:16
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011171713020.789-100000@peter.localdomain
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Jan Wieck writes:

> Just successfully loading an old-style C function doesn't
> guarantee that it works anyway. I pointed out before that the
> changes due to TOAST require each function that takes
> arguments of varlen types to expect toasted values.

Couldn't the function handler detoast the values before handing them to
the function? That would be slower, but it would allow people to continue
to use the "simpler" interface.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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