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[Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sergei!

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ...
> > +  Lex_cstring *strdup_root(MEM_ROOT &mem_root)
>
> The way you use it, it looks like you really need a constructor, not
> a strdup.
>

On second thought, it can't be a constructor because it can fail with
allocation error.
But it's better to be from the other side:

bool Lex_cstring::strdup(MEM_ROOT *mem_root, const Lex_cstring &src)
{
  // allocate and deep-copy from src to this
}

I'd really like to use such utility methods instead of C variants like
thd_make_lex_string(). For plugins we can have strdup() method accepting
THD * and compiled inside server (non-inline):

bool Lex_cstring::strdup(THD *thd, const Lex_cstring &src)
{
  strdup(thd->mem_root, src);
}

We better go away from this C service layer of thd_*() functions between
server and plugins and use class methods instead. We can't use THD directly
though, because we don't want it compiled in plugins. So we compile
non-inline methods in server that are used in plugin.


-- 
All the best,

Aleksey Midenkov
@midenok