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: 2011-01-28T22:27:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:38, Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>
>> Find attached v3 of the patch.  changes include:
>> - fix deep recursion due to accidental reversal of check in encode_array_literal
>> - add proper support for stringifying composite/row types.  I did not
>> find a good way to quote these from the perl on the fly, so instead we
>> compute it the same way we used to and store the string inside the new
>> object along with the array :(.
>> - misc whitespace and code touchups
>> <pg_to_perl_arrays_v3.patch.gz>
>
>
> Nice improvement. It passes all the regression tests on my OS X system. I have only a minor suggestion, I think is_array is worth mentioning in the utility functions chapter of the pl/perl documentation, it would be also more clear to use it in regression tests as opposed to manually checking whether the ref is equal to  'PostgreSQL::InServer::ARRAY'.

Wait a second...  Just who is reviewing who's patch? :P

Both done in the attached.  I also renamed is_array() to
is_array_ref() for clarity (hopefully).