Re: Feature patch 1 for plperl [PATCH]

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-10T00:14:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 15:01 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
>   
>> I didn't get any significant feedback from the earlier draft so here's
>> the finished 'feature patch 1' for plperl.
>>     
>
> I think it would help if you could split this up into about 6 to 10
> single-feature patches.
>   

I think that's a bit excessive. I'd suggest three patches:

    * the new utility functions (quote_literal, decode_bytea etc.) These
      should be fairly uncontroversial, but account for a large part of
      the patch volume.
    * the code relating to library load, interpreter initialization and
      termination
    * the remainder (function naming, better error checking, enabling
      use/require if a lib is already loaded, cleanup and optimization)

We could ask Tim to break up the last, but they are all fairly small 
items, and I at least wouldn't be bothered by having them combined. And 
having to handle 6 to 10 patches all hitting the same body of code 
doesn't sound terrible pleasant either.

cheers

andrew