Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]
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Msg-id 1294863385-sup-4470@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of mié ene 12 16:55:17 -0300 2011:
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> >> I suspect it'd be quiet, unfortunately, since there are a bazillion ad hoc implementations of a Perl SQL array
parser,and many of them, I suspect, don't complain if the string doesn't look like an SQL array. They would just parse
astring like "ARRAY(0x118ee2a0)" and return an empty array, or a NULL.
 
> > 
> > I kinda doubt that a function failing in that way would pass any
> > testing.
> 
> What is this “testing” thing of which you speak?

Ha ha ha :-(

I wonder if there's a way to overload the string representation of the
array so that it throws an error.

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