Re: PostgreSQL::PLPerl::Call - Simple interface for calling SQL functions from PostgreSQL PL/Perl

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@endpoint.com>, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-02-17T18:30:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

>> Yes, but if it's a variadic function, I suspect that it won't often be
>> called with the same number of args. So you'd potentially end up
>> caching a lot of extra stuff that would never be used again.
> 
> Potentially. Patches welcome!

GitHub. ;-P

> Umm, perhaps F->funcname(@args), or PG->funcname(@args), or ... ?
> 
> Anyone got any better suggestions?

PG is good. Or maybe DB?

>> By the way, I think it needs some documentation explaining how to load it inside PL/Perl.
> 
> I thought about that, and started to write it, but dropped it for now.
> I'll wait till my "cunning plan" to share code with the Safe compartment
> (aka PostgreSQL::PLPerl::Injector) is done then document how call() can
> be used in both plperlu and plperl.

Ah, okay.

Best,

David