Bring this transform function into sync with the policy established
by commit 3a382983d.
Also, fix it to make sure that what it drills down to is indeed a
hash, and not some other kind of Perl SV. Previously, the test
cases added here provoked crashes.
Because of the crash hazard, back-patch to 9.5 where this module
was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28336.1528393969@sss.pgh.pa.us
Some versions of Perl export a macro named HS_KEY. This creates a
conflict in contrib/hstore_plperl against hstore's macro of the same
name. The most future-proof solution seems to be to rename our macro;
I chose HSTORE_KEY. For consistency, rename HS_VAL and related macros
similarly.
Back-patch to 9.5. contrib/hstore_plperl doesn't exist before that
so there is no need to worry about the conflict in older releases.
Per reports from Marco Atzeri and Mike Blackwell.
Remove a bunch of "extern Datum foo(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);" declarations that
are no longer needed now that PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(foo) provides that.
Some of these were evidently missed in commit e7128e8dbb305059, but others
were cargo-culted in in code added since then. Possibly that can be blamed
in part on the fact that we'd not fixed relevant documentation examples,
which I've now done.
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.
reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
