[postgis-devel] More dump comments

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Fri Feb 27 07:13:05 PST 2009


Obe, Regina wrote:

> Also according to this
> http://doxygen.postgresql.org/execTuples_8c-source.html
> 
> It appears that TupleDescGetSlot is obsolete.  Does anyone know when it
> became obsolete?
> 
> Interesting part of docs
> /*
> 01050  * TupleDescGetSlot - Initialize a slot based on the supplied 
> tupledesc
> 01051  *
> 01052  * Note: this is obsolete; it is sufficient to call BlessTupleDesc on
> 01053  * the tupdesc.  We keep it around just for backwards 
> compatibility with
> 01054  * existing user-written SRFs.
> 01055  */

Hi Regina,

Have a quick browse of anoncvs.postgresql.org, and see in which version 
this comment changes. If it's before 8.1 then we would be better off 
using the newer equivalent instead.


ATB,

Mark.

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