Re: [PATCH] plpythonu datatype conversion improvements

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 02:07:33 Caleb Welton wrote:
> Patch for plpythonu
>
> Primary motivation of the attached patch is to support handling bytea
> conversion allowing for embedded nulls, which in turn allows for supporting
> the marshal module.
>
> Secondary motivation is slightly improved performance for conversion
> routines of basic datatypes that have simple mappings between
> postgres/python.
>
> Primary design is to change the conversion routines from being based on
> cstrings to datums, eg: PLyBool_FromString(const char *) =>
> PLyBool_FromBool(PLyDatumToOb, Datum);

Makes sense; please add it to the next commit fest.

Are there any compatibility implications, that is, do any of the conversions
work differently from before (except when they were broken before, as in the
case of bytea)?