Re: pl/python invalidate functions with composite arguments

Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>

From: Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-11T15:51:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 11/02/11 16:47, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 02:09, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> wrote:
>> It seems a bit heavy handed to invalidate and remake the entire
>> plpython function whenever we hit this case. I think we could get away
>> with setting ->is_rowtype = 2 in PLy_procedure_valid() instead. I
>> suppose it should be fairly rare case anyway so... *shrug*.
> 
> This last comment might make me think that we're looking for a new
> version of this patch, but the comment on the CommitFest application
> says "looks good".  So I'm not sure whether this should be marked
> Waiting on Author or Ready for Committer, but the current status of
> Needs Review looks wrong.

I'm not planning on writing a new version of the patch. AIUI Alex said,
that there's a possible optimization to be done, but the gain is so
small that it doesn't matter.

Jan