From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-03-12T18:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: PL/Ruby --enable-conversion

>>>>> "G" == Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> writes:

G> Is there any compelling reason *not* to compile PL/Ruby with the 
G> --enable-conversion option?

 it's experimental and for me it's a toy because it make only a few
 conversions. Look at

 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype.html

 to find all postgres types. This is why I've added

  --enable-network and --enable-geometry

 to have something more complete

G> Is it hellaciously slow? Does it make kittens explode?

 well, it must be faster with --enable-conversion because with the old
 version it make the transformation

   Datum ==> String ( ==> Float : optional with a call to Float(string))
   Float ==> String ==> Datum

 with --enable-conversion it make

   Datum ==> Float
   Float ==> Datum

 Now for --enable-network and --enable-geometry it's perhaps best to wait
 for 0.4.1 (0.4.0 is out) because I'll add an option --enable-autoload to
 give him the possibility to autoload classes like NetAddr, Point, Circle,
 etc even with $SAFE >= 4



Guy Decoux