fschmidt escribió:
>
> Why doesn't the PL/Tcl (and PL/Python) implementation use the SPI functions?
> For example pltcl_set_tuple_values() calls NameStr() instead of SPI_fname()
> and heap_getattr() instead of SPI_getbinval(). Why? This makes the code
> impossible to follow for someone who is not familiar with the postgres
> source and has only read the online documentation.
If you are reading the PL/Tcl source (i.e. the Postgres source, really),
you should definitely be using a source code cross-referencing system;
be it doxygen, or cscope, glimpse, or whatever tool fits the bill. If
you cannot find out at a keystroke where to find the definition of
NameStr() you are doomed [to take a lot longer to understand what's
going on].
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