Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The third step is for oracle_compat.c::initcap() to use > formatting.c::str_initcap(). You can see the result; patch attached > (not applied).
> This greatly reduces the size of initcap(), with the downside that we > are making two extra copies of the string to convert it to/from char*. > Is this acceptable? I'd say not. Can't we do some more refactoring and avoid so many useless conversions? Seems like str_initcap is the wrong primitive API --- the work ought to be done by a function that takes a char pointer and a length. That would be a suitable basis for functions operating on both text datums and C strings. (Perhaps what I should be asking is whether the performance of upper() and lower() is equally bad. Certainly all three should have comparable code, so maybe they all need refactoring.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches