Re: dynahash API questions

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> ... This works, but obviously it's pretty ugly. However, the
> simple solution of adding a void pointer argument to these function
> pointers would uglify all the existing hashing and comparison functions.
> Does anyone have any ideas for a better solution?

The solution that's been used so far is a static variable known to
the caller and the hash/comparison functions; see for instance
CurTupleHashTable in executor/execGrouping.c.  At some point there
might be enough of these to justify adding a void pointer argument
... not sure that we're there yet though.

(Right offhand it sounds like you might be reinventing execGrouping.c
--- what is your application exactly?)

			regards, tom lane