Re: [PATCH] 5 plperl patches

This also passes my modest testing, including the error case mentioned
the other day, and appears to make sense. (I did notice a small case of
non-postgres indentation, but I assume we'll have another run of
pg_indent before the next beta?)

cheers

andrew

Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

>I have attached 5 patches (split up for ease of review) to plperl.c.
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>1. Two minor cleanups:
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>    - We don't need to call hv_exists+hv_fetch; we should just check the
>      return value of hv_fetch.
>    - newSVpv("undef",0) is the string "undef", not a real undef.
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>2. This should fix the bug Andrew Dunstan described in a recent -hackers
>   post. It replaces three bogus "eval_pv(key, 0)" calls with newSVpv,
>   and eliminates another redundant hv_exists+hv_fetch pair.
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>3. plperl_build_tuple_argument builds up a string of Perl code to create
>   a hash representing the tuple. This patch creates the hash directly.
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>4. Another minor cleanup: replace a couple of av_store()s with av_push.
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>5. Analogous to #3 for plperl_trigger_build_args. This patch removes the
>   static sv_add_tuple_value function, which does much the same as two
>   other utility functions defined later, and merges the functionality
>   into plperl_hash_from_tuple.
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>I have tested the patches to the best of my limited ability, but I would
>appreciate it very much if someone else could review and test them too.
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>(Thanks to Andrew and David Fetter for their help with some testing.)
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