Re: Fast default stuff versus pg_upgrade

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-06-20T02:46:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-06-19 22:41:26 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> This unfortunately crashes and burns if we use DirectFunctionCall3 to call
> array_in, because it uses fn_extra. There is the CallerFInfoFunctionCall
> stuff, but it only has 1 and 2 arg variants, and array_in takes 3. In
> retrospect we should probably have added a 3 arg form - quite a few input
> functions take 3 args. Anything else is likely to be rather uglier.
> 
> Attaching the failing patch. I'll attack this again in the morning.

Why don't you just use OidFunctionCall3? Or simply an explicit
fmgr_info(), InitFunctionCallInfoData(), FunctionCallInvoke() combo?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Commits

  1. Allow for pg_upgrade of attributes with missing values