Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
To: Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2011-01-26T18:45:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 15:48, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 13:04, Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:52 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well, neither me (I haven't used much of the guts api there).
>
> Find attached a proof of concept that modifies Alexey's patch to do
> the above (using the overload example I and others posted).
[ ... ]
> Thoughts?  Should I polish this a bit more?  Or do we like the GUC better?

So its been over a week with no comments. ISTM there were more people
against adding yet another GUC.  Barring objection ill finish the
missing parts of the POC patch I posted and submit that.