Re: domains code query

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: domains code query
Date: 2006-08-14 23:50:04
Message-ID: 26517.1155599404@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> domains.c contains the followng snippet in domain_in():

> else* *if* (my_extra->domain_type != domainType)
> domain_state_setup(my_extra, domainType, false,
> fcinfo->flinfo->fn_mcxt);

> We were just looking at this code (in the context of implementing enums) and wondered when this case might arise.
> Would it be when more than one domain is used in a table row? Or are we smarter than that?

I think it's just defensive programming. The logic was copied from
array_in which does something similar, but AFAIR there's not really
any code path which would feed differing input types to the same
function call within a single query execution. Still, since it takes
only an extra comparison or so to handle the scenario, why not?

regards, tom lane

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