| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Any reason to have heap_(de)formtuple? |
| Date: | 2008-10-23 15:14:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20081023151412.GA4845@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Tom Lane napsal(a):
>> Well, aside from the gruntwork needed to convert all the core code that
>> still uses the old APIs, there's the prospect of breaking extension
>> modules that still use the old APIs. It's kind of annoying to have two
>> copies of that code, but less annoying than removing it would be ...
>
> What's about convert null array to boolean and call heap_form_tuple?
Agreed, I started doing that some time ago ... it doesn't seem all that
complicated. We could try to add a #warning if an external module uses
the deprecated interface, for a couple of releases, and then perhaps
drop it.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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