Re: Optimize PL/Perl function argument passing [PATCH]

On Dec 8, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

>> Do you have any more improvements in the pipeline?
> 
> I'd like to add $arrayref = decode_array_literal('{2,3}') and
> maybe $hashref = decode_hstore_literal('x=>1, y=>2').
> I don't know how much works would be involved in those though.

Those would be handy, but for arrays, at least, I'd rather have a GUC to turn on so that arrays are passed to PL/perl functions as array references.

> Another possible improvement would be rewriting encode_array_literal()
> in C, so returning arrays would be much faster.

+1

Best,

David