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

On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:52 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote:
> 
>> You mean packing both a string representation and a reference to a single SV * value?
> 
> Dunno, I'm not a guts guy.

Well, neither me (I haven't used much of the guts api there).

> 
>> I haven't considered that (lack of extensive perlgus-foo) although I think that's an interesting idea. One drawback would be that it would require both conversion to a string format and to a perl reference, performing unnecessary actions during every time arrays are passed to a pl/perl function. If there is a strong dislike of the proposed 'compatibility' GUC option - I think I can change the existing patch to incorporate array string representation into the reference-holding SV quite easily.
> 
> Andrew's objections have merit. So perhaps just add this patch to the commit fest as is?

Already done :)

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