Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: Foreign Key Arrays

From: Mark Rofail <markm(dot)rofail(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: Foreign Key Arrays
Date: 2018-02-01 15:17:04
Message-ID: CAJvoCutVQ37Y=7Okme+3KpXi491uhdF4_bV-E3exmzpi8Jtr_w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:52 AM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> wrote:

> I looked some at your anyarray @>> anyelement code and sadly it does not
> look like the index code could work. The issue I see is that
> ginqueryarrayextract() needs to make a copy of the search key but to do so
> it needs to know the type of anyelement (to know if it needs to detoast,
> etc). But there is as far as I can tell no way to check the type of
> anyelement in this context.
>

since its a polymorphic function it only passes if the `anyarray` is the
same type of the `anyelement` so we are sure they are the same type. Can't
we get the type from the anyarray ? the type is already stored in `
arr_type`.

Best Regards,
Mark Rofail

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