Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA5A475CFA for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joeconway.com (unknown [63.210.180.150]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC8C475AA7 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [206.19.64.3] (account jconway HELO joeconway.com) by joeconway.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 1291916; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:12:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3D63B0AD.7050403@joeconway.com> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:24:29 -0700 From: Joe Conway User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane Cc: Rod Taylor , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Proposal: make "opaque" obsolete References: <18530.1029866880@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1029867570.99470.82.camel@jester> <19248.1029868284@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3D6325FC.8020608@joeconway.com> <17737.1029910488@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3D633333.3040500@joeconway.com> <20229.1029940388@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200208/1605 X-Sequence-Number: 27288 Tom Lane wrote: > Joe Conway writes: > >>I'll give it a shot, but a crude gameplan/general guidance to get me >>started would be much appreciated. > > > AFAIK, the only code you should need to touch is in > src/include/utils/array.h > src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c > src/backend/utils/adt/arrayutils.c > > Look around for other references to ArrayType, but I don't *think* there > is anything else that processes arrays directly; everything else > should be calling construct_array() or deconstruct_array(). OK. I should have a bit more time today and tonight. I'll see what I can get done with this. Thanks, Joe