Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)
Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>
From: Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-26T23:03:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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