Re: PL/Tcl implementation

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

fschmidt escribió:
> 
> Why doesn't the PL/Tcl (and PL/Python) implementation use the SPI functions? 
> For example pltcl_set_tuple_values() calls NameStr() instead of SPI_fname()
> and heap_getattr() instead of SPI_getbinval().  Why?  This makes the code
> impossible to follow for someone who is not familiar with the postgres
> source and has only read the online documentation.

If you are reading the PL/Tcl source (i.e. the Postgres source, really),
you should definitely be using a source code cross-referencing system;
be it doxygen, or cscope, glimpse, or whatever tool fits the bill.  If
you cannot find out at a keystroke where to find the definition of
NameStr() you are doomed [to take a lot longer to understand what's
going on].

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