On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Behn, Edward (EBEHN) <eb...@arinc.com> wrote: > > I've endeavored to enable the return of arrays of composite types from code > written in PL/Python. It seems that this can be accomplished though a very > minor change to the code: > > On line 401 in the file src/pl/plpython/plpy_typeio.c, remove the error > report "PL/Python functions cannot return type..." and replace it with the > command > > arg->func = PLyObject_ToComposite; > > From all that I can see, this does exactly what I want. A python list of > tuples is converted to an array of composite types in SQL. > > I ran the main and python regression suites for both python2 and python3 with > assert enabled. The only discrepancies I got were ones that were due to the > output expecting an error. When I altered the .out files to the expected > behavior, it matched just fine. > > Am I missing anything, (ie memory leak, undesirable behavior elsewhere)?
Don't know, but I'd definitely submit that patch to the next open fest. That's a very useful gain for such a small change. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
