From: | Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com |
Subject: | Re: Speed dblink using alternate libpq tuple storage |
Date: | 2012-01-27 15:48:11 |
Message-ID: | 20120127154811.GC4107@gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:35:04AM -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> > - The meaning of PGresAttValue is changed. The field 'value' now
> > contains a value withOUT terminating zero. This change seems to
> > have no effect on any other portion within the whole source
> > tree of postgresql from what I've seen.
>
> This is a minor point of concern. This function was exposed to
> support libpqtypes (which your stuff compliments very nicely by the
> way) and I quickly confirmed removal of the null terminator didn't
> cause any problems there. I doubt anyone else is inspecting the
> structure directly (also searched the archives and didn't find
> anything).
>
> This needs to be advertised very loudly in the docs -- I understand
> why this was done but it's a pretty big change in the way the api
> works.
Note that the non-NUL-terminated PGresAttValue is only used for row
handler. So no existing usage is affected.
But I agree using same struct in different situations is confusing,
thus the request for separate struct for row handler usage.
--
marko
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