2016-10-18 5:48 GMT+02:00 Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com>:

> On 18 October 2016 at 04:19, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On 2016-10-17 16:16:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> I wouldn't think that cross-file references would be especially
> >> common.  Functions that take PG_FUNCTION_ARGS and return Datum aren't
> >> a lot of fun to call from C.  But maybe I'm wrong.
> >
> > There's a fair number of DirectFunctionCall$Ns over the backend.
>
> It's only an issue if one contrib calls another contrib (or the core
> backend code calls into a contrib, but that's unlikely) via
> DirectFunctionCall .
>
> If changed to use regular OidFunctionCall they'll go via the catalogs
> and be fine, albeit at a small performance penalty. In many cases that
> can be eliminated by caching the fmgr info and using FunctionCall
> directly, but it requires taking a lock on the function or registering
> for invalidations so it's often not worth it.
>
> Personally I think it'd be cleaner to avoid one contrib referencing
> another's headers directly and we have the fmgr infrastructure to make
> it unnecessary. But I don't really think it's a problem that
> especially needs solving either.
>

Not all called functions has V1 interface. I understand so plpgsql_check is
not usual extension and it is a exception, but there is lot of cross calls.
I can use a technique used by Tom in last changes in python's extension,
but I am not able do check in linux gcc.

Regards

Pavel


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