Re: [HACKERS] Time to drop old-style (V0) functions? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/9/16 7:52 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's kind of ironic, at least IMHO, that the DirectionFunctionCall
> macros are anything but direct.  Each one is a non-inlined function
> call that does a minimum of 8 variable assignments before actually
> calling the function.

If this is a problem (it might be), then we can just make those calls,
er, direct C function calls to different function.  For example,
   result = DatumGetObjectId(DirectFunctionCall1(oidin,
CStringGetDatum(pro_name_or_oid)));

could just be
   result = oidin_internal(pro_name_or_oid);

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