From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: btree_gin and btree_gist for enums
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On 02/24/2017 02:55 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 02/24/2017 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I don't know what to call it either. In my test I used
>>> CallerContextFunctionCall2 - not sure if that's quite right, but should
>>> be close.
>> CallerInfo?  CallerFInfo?  Or we could spell out CallerFmgrInfo but
>> that seems a bit verbose.
>>
>> 			
> I'll go with CallerFInfoFunctionCall2 etc.
>
> In the btree_gist system the calls to the routines like enum_cmp are
> buried about three levels deep. I'm thinking I'll just pass the flinfo
> down the stack and just call these routines at the bottom level.
>
>
>


It's occurred to me that we could reduce the code clutter in fmgr.c a
bit by turning the DirectFunctionCall{n]Coll functions into macros
calling these functions and passing NULL as the flinfo param.

cheers

andrew

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