Re: generic pseudotype IO functions?

On 2014-01-06 10:29:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Does anybody have an opinion about introducing generic pseudotype IO
> > functions?
> 
> Yes: -1.

Ok, fine with me.

> > Pseudotype.c/pg_proc.h are slowly growing a number of pretty
> > useless/redundant copy&pasted functions... Most for cases that are
> > pretty damn unlikely to be hit by users not knowing what they do.
> 
> That's hardly the largest cost associated with inventing a new pseudotype.
> Nor are there lots of new pseudotypes coming down the pike, anyway.

Robert suggested modelling the lookup of changeset extraction output
callbacks after fdw's FdwRoutine, that's why I am wondering about
it. I noticed while reviewing that I so far had borrowed fdw's C
routines which didn't seem like such a nice thing to do...

> > What about adding a pseudotype_in/out that just error out with a generic
> > message?
> 
> This will break some of the function sanity checks in opr_sanity,
> I believe.  Yeah, we could lobotomize that, but I don't see any benefit.

Yes. But there's precedent in refcursor using text's routines...

(it's in type_sanity, but whatever)

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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