Re: Revised patches to add table function support to PL/Tcl (TODO item)

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Lehenbauer <karllehenbauer@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-02-09T01:37:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 02/07/2011 11:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Karl Lehenbauer
> <karllehenbauer@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> This patch appears to be changing a whole lot of stuff that in fact
>>> pg_indent has never changed, so there's something wrong with the way you
>>> are doing it.  It looks like a bad typedef list from here.
>> You were right, Tom.  The problem was that typedefs "pltcl_interp_desc", "pltcl_proc_key", and "pltcl_proc_ptr" weren't in src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list.  After adding them (and building and installing the netbsd-based, patched indent), pgindent only changes a handful of lines.
>>
>> pltcl-karl-try3-1-of-3-pgindent.patch patches typedefs.list with the three missing typedefs and pltcl.c with the small changes made by pgindent (it shifted some embedded comments left within their lines, mainly).
>>
>> As before, but "try3" now, pltcl-karl-try3-2-of-3-objects.patch converts pltcl.c to use the "Tcl objects" C API.
>>
>> And as before, but "try3" now, pltcl-karl-try3-3-of-3-setof.patch adds returning record and SETOF record.
> This patch did not get reviewed, because the person who originally
> planned to review it had a hardware failure that prevented him from
> doing so.  Can anyone pick this up?

I will have a look at it.

cheers

andrew