On 2018-Jun-08, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I'm inclined to think that auto-dereference is indeed a good idea,
> > and am tempted to go make that change to make all this consistent.
> > Comments?
>
> Here's a draft patch for that. I ended up only changing
> plperl_sv_to_datum. There is maybe a case for doing something
> similar in plperl_return_next_internal's fn_retistuple code path,
> so that you can return a reference-to-reference-to-hash there;
> but I was unable to muster much enthusiasm for touching that.
ilmari, did you have time to give Tom's patch a spin?
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