On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> I have finished updating about half of Postgres' builtin functions to
> the new style of fmgr interface. At this point, everything that accepts
> any pass-by-value datatypes is converted; the remaining work is for
> functions that use only pass-by-reference datatypes, and therefore
> receive only pointer arguments.
Cool! I need to study up a bit on fmgr, but anything that help
Linux/Alpha is a good thing. :)
> This should already take care of function-call-related portability
> problems on many platforms. In particular these changes should
> eliminate the need for Ryan Kirkpatrick's Linux/Alpha patches, and
Not all of my Linux/Alpha patches are related to fmgr, there are a
few related to s_lock and such (which can probably be put into the source
tree with #ifdefs). But this should take care of the majority of the
Linux/Alpha patch.
I will download the snapshot today at work (where I have "real"
bandwidth :) and test things out this weekend. I should have a report by
Monday. Maybe I will even have a patch that can be safely applied to
the development source tree. :) TTYL.
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