Re: Lookup penalty for VARIADIC patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Lookup penalty for VARIADIC patch
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Msg-id 14520.1216163714@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Lookup penalty for VARIADIC patch  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/7/15 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Also, it occurs to me that we could buy back a good part of the extra
>> space if we allowed pg_proc.probin to be NULL for internal functions.
>> Right now it's always "-" in that case, which is useless ...

> probin is used in some unofficial pl hacks, so this space its some
> times used.

Sure, if you want to use it you can.  I'm just saying we should allow it
to be really NULL, instead of a dummy value, when it isn't being used.
        regards, tom lane


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