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Re: Procedures versus the "fastpath" API

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-03-15T05:07:46Z
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 02:33:47PM -0500, Joe Conway wrote:
> My vote would be reject using fastpath for procedures in all relevant branches.
> If someday someone cares enough to make it work, it is a new feature for a new
> major release.

FWIW, my vote would go for issuing an error if attempting to use a
procedure in the fast path for all the branches.  The lack of
complaint about the error you are mentioning sounds like a pretty good
argument to fail properly on existing branches, and work on this as a
new feature in the future if there is anybody willing to make a case
for it.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Doc: update libpq's documentation for PQfn().

  2. Disallow calling anything but plain functions via the fastpath API.