Re: why does plperl cache functions using just a bool for is_trigger

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-03T16:28:42Z
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  1. Remove unnecessary use of trigger flag to hash plperl functions

Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 16:59, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Surely, removing the internal name's dependency on the istrigger flag is
>> wrong. If you're going to maintain separate hash entries at the pltcl
>> level, why would you want to risk collisions underneath that?

> Good catch.  I was basing it off plperl which uses the same proname
> for both (sprintf(subname, %s__%u", prodesc->proname, fn_oid)).  Its
> OK for plperl because when we compile we save a reference to it and
> use that directly (more or less).  The name does not really matter.

OK, applied.

I notice that plpython is also using the trigger relation's OID, but I
don't know that language well enough to tell whether it really needs to.

			regards, tom lane