On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 22:12, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: >> On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Alexey Klyukin wrote: >>> You mean packing both a string representation and a reference to a single >>> SV * value? > >> Dunno, I'm not a guts guy. > >> I haven't considered that (lack of extensive perlgus-foo) although I >> think that's an interesting idea. One drawback would be that it would >> require both conversion to a string format and to a perl reference, >> performing unnecessary actions during every time arrays are passed to a >> pl/perl function. > > I had supposed that it would be possible to do the string conversion > lazily, ie, only if the string value was actually demanded.
Yep, In-fact if we wanted we could even die (or throw an exception in other language speak :) ) when the string value is demanded. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
