Marc Munro wrote:
I require base64 or some similar encoding scheme from a C language
extension and need it to be as fast as reasonably possible. In
src/backend/utils/adt/encode.c there are functions b64_encode and
b64_decode which would be ideal but these are defined static and so are
not available to my code.
I know I could call these functions indirectly by calling binary_ecncode
through DirectFunctionCalln() but this is a whole lot more complexity
and overhead than I'd like.
I note that /contrib/pgcrypto/pgp-armor.c appears to have its own copies
of these 2 functions and now I have elected to do the same.
So, would there be any chance of redefining the base64 functions in
encode.c as extern to eliminate this redundancy?
Just how much complexity do you think calling binary_encode involves?
You can probably do the whole thing in one or two lines of code.
cheers
andrew
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