From: | andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: domains code query |
Date: | 2006-08-15 00:14:24 |
Message-ID: | 3902.24.211.165.134.1155600864.squirrel@www.dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> domains.c contains the followng snippet in domain_in():
>
>> else* if (my_extra->domain_type != domainType)
>> domain_state_setup(my_extra, domainType, false,
>> fcinfo->flinfo->fn_mcxt);
>
>> We were just looking at this code (in the context of implementing enums)
>> and wondered when this case might arise.
>> Would it be when more than one domain is used in a table row? Or are we
>> smarter than that?
>
> I think it's just defensive programming. The logic was copied from
> array_in which does something similar, but AFAIR there's not really
> any code path which would feed differing input types to the same
> function call within a single query execution. Still, since it takes
> only an extra comparison or so to handle the scenario, why not?
>
Sure. We were hoping it was something like that.
cheers
andrew
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