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. If there > is a strong dislike of the proposed 'compatibility' GUC option - I think I > can change the existing patch to incorporate array string representation into > the reference-holding SV quite easily. Andrew's objections have merit. So perhaps just add this patch to the commit fest as is? Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
