Re: Add SPI results constants available for PL/*

2012/1/10 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
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> On 01/03/2012 09:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> On 01/03/2012 08:40 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Pavel Stehule<pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>>>>> I'd suppose it interesting to add a table to pg_catalog containing this
>>>>> data.
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>>>> - it is useless overhead
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>>> I tend to agree.
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>>>> I am expecting so definition some constants in Perl, Python is simple
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>>> Presumably one could instead write a script to transform the list of
>>> constants into a .pm file that could be loaded into the background, or
>>> whatever PL/python's equivalent of that concept is.  Not sure if
>>> there's a better way to do it.
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>> Yeah, I'm with you and Pavel. Here's my quick perl one-liner to produce a
>> set of SPI_* constants for pl/perl. I'm looking at the best way to include
>> this in the bootstrap code.
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>>   perl -ne 'BEGIN { print "use constant\n{\n"; } END { print "};\n"; }
>>   print "\t$1 => $2,\n" if /#define (SPI_\S+)\s+\(?(-?\d+)\)?/;'
>>   src/include/executor/spi.h
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> Actually, now I look closer I see that PLPerl passes back a stringified
> status from SPI_execute(), so there is no great need for setting up these
> constants. It's probably water under the bridge now, but maybe PLPython
> should have done this too.
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This is not documented well - I see nothing about result value in doc.
Does it raise exception when SPI returns some bad result value?

Regards

Pavel

> cheers
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> andrew