
> >     Just  successfully  loading  an  old-style C function doesn't
> >     guarantee that it works anyway. I pointed out before that the
> >     changes  due  to  TOAST  require  each  function  that  takes
> >     arguments of varlen types to  expect  toasted  values.
> 
> Couldn't the function handler detoast the values before handing them to
> the function?  That would be slower, but it would allow people to continue
> to use the "simpler" interface.

Are there really that many things you can do with a toasted value ?
Off hand I can only think of equality functions. All others should need 
a detoasted value anyways.

Andreas

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:02:19 +0100
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names