diff options
author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-06-17 00:52:56 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-06-17 00:52:56 +0000 |
commit | b5ea5e2f1c5dbd6a1618e8dfbfc642e85944c1da (patch) | |
tree | fd389a206d252fe459fdf238e450a6a7ad495207 /src/backend/access/gist/gistsplit.c | |
parent | 17209608aeb547f470d82f32c658e1e4c92c06e5 (diff) | |
download | postgresql-b5ea5e2f1c5dbd6a1618e8dfbfc642e85944c1da.tar.gz postgresql-b5ea5e2f1c5dbd6a1618e8dfbfc642e85944c1da.zip |
Clean up a number of bogosities around pltcl's handling of the Tcl "result":
1. Directly reading interp->result is deprecated in Tcl 8.0 and later;
you're supposed to use Tcl_GetStringResult. This code finally broke with
Tcl 8.5, because Tcl_GetVar can now have side-effects on interp->result even
though it preserves the logical state of the result. (There's arguably a
Tcl issue here, because Tcl_GetVar could invalidate the pointer result of a
just-preceding Tcl_GetStringResult, but I doubt the Tcl guys will see it as
a bug.)
2. We were being sloppy about the encoding of the result: some places would
push database-encoding data into the Tcl result, which should not happen,
and we were assuming that any error result coming back from Tcl was in the
database encoding, which is not a good assumption.
3. There were a lot of calls of Tcl_SetResult that uselessly specified
TCL_VOLATILE for constant strings. This is only a minor performance issue,
but I fixed it in passing since I had to look at all the calls anyway.
#2 is a live bug regardless of which Tcl version you are interested in,
so back-patch even to branches that are unlikely to be used with Tcl 8.5.
I went back as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch applied easily;
7.4 was using a different error processing scheme that has got its own
problems :-(
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/access/gist/gistsplit.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions