Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2011-01-13T05:12:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes: > On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: >> You mean packing both a string representation and a reference to a single SV * value? > Dunno, I'm not a guts guy. > I haven't considered that (lack of extensive perlgus-foo) although I > think that's an interesting idea. One drawback would be that it would > require both conversion to a string format and to a perl reference, > performing unnecessary actions during every time arrays are passed to a > pl/perl function. I had supposed that it would be possible to do the string conversion lazily, ie, only if the string value was actually demanded. regards, tom lane