Re: Functions in Postgres

From: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Gordon Clarke <gordonc(at)adf-serials(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Functions in Postgres
Date: 2002-04-12 18:46:02
Message-ID: 200204121846.g3CIk2U07447@saturn.janwieck.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > .... Since Tcl's interface is purely
> > string based, everything goes first from internal to string,
> > then from string to Tcl's internal and all the way back
> > again.
>
> Not since about Tcl 8.0.

You're right, not Tcl's fault. Noone changed PL/Tcl to use it
though. It still does Tcl_CreateCommand(), which is the
backward compatibility pure string interface wrapping
technology. :-)

Jan

> > Not easy to estimate who will win here.
>
> Agreed, some hard numbers would be more useful than speculation.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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