Re: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names

Jan Wieck writes:

>     Just  successfully  loading  an  old-style C function doesn't
>     guarantee that it works anyway. I pointed out before that the
>     changes  due  to  TOAST  require  each  function  that  takes
>     arguments of varlen types to  expect  toasted  values.

Couldn't the function handler detoast the values before handing them to
the function?  That would be slower, but it would allow people to continue
to use the "simpler" interface.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/