Re: plperl features

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:13:47PM +0300, Sergej Sergeev wrote:
> Patch provide support for array type and pseudo type
> (anyelement, anyarray) for function parameters and result.
> for example:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION add_three_values(anyelement, anyelement, anyelement)
> RETURNS anyelement AS '
> return $_[0]+$_[1]+$_[2];
> ' LANGUAGE plperl;
>
> CREATE FUNCTION make_array(anyelement, anyelement, anyelement) RETURNS
> anyarray AS '
> return [$_[0], $_[1], $_[2]];
> ' LANGUAGE plperl;
>
> Comments?

What happens if you feed other pseudotypes, like cstring or
language_handler?  Shouldn't that be disallowed or something?

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