On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > It'd definitely be nicer that way, but given the current limitations of > > bootstrap mode I see no non-kluge way to make a built-in function have > > OUT parameters. (Hint: array_in doesn't work in bootstrap mode.) > > Actually, that turns out not to be so hard to fix as I thought. > array_in only needs to work for the array types used in the core system > tables, and bootstrap.c already has a hard-wired table of that info ... > we only have to make it available to array_in. Which I just did.
Cool; I'd noticed that this would have been the first such function. > So let's fix pg_xlogfile_name_offset() to have two OUT parameters > instead of returning a smushed-together string. I'll do this, but I'm conscious that this is a cosmetic change. I'm going on vacation very soon now, so test reports of the major functionality would be greatly appreciated. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
