Re: Type implemented in plpythonu crashes backend - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Type implemented in plpythonu crashes backend
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Msg-id 28793.1092596530@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Type implemented in plpythonu crashes backend  (pgsql@groks.org)
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pgsql@groks.org writes:
> I'd like to implement new postgres types in a language other than C for
> prototyping speed.  plpgsql won't let me create a function which takes a
> cstring, and neither will pltcl.  Happily, plpythonu will, and it seems
> to work fine.

I'd say this is an oversight in the plpython code --- it should be
rejecting pseudotype arguments, since as you've discovered it cannot
really cope.  It should *certainly* reject "opaque" ... might be okay to
allow cstring but I'm not sure.
        regards, tom lane


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