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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Aleksey!

On Dec 22, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
> > >
> > > Particularly to this function I don't like its name, semantics and
> > > signature.
> >
> > As far as the service is concerned, "don't like" is too weak an
> > argument, changing a service comes with a compatibility cost.
> 
> Of course, if there is compatibility issue. That's not the case for
> our in-tree plugins, I guess?

You cannot base your decision on the belief that all plugins are
in-tree. This API was created open for third-party plugins to use.
So, we have to assume that third party plugins exist
(and they do exist, check github, sourceforce, and jira).

> > > Now, to the THD::make_clex_string() and THD::make_lex_string().
> > > These methods should not be in THD at all. Its monolithic design
> > > with million of different methods looks to me as a huge mess
> > > accumulated across long time.  There was no need to create proxies
> > > when there would not be such a large class in the first place.
> >
> > They could be methods of a MEM_ROOT. One shouldn't need a complete
> > THD to allocate memory from a memroot.
> 
> I believe, that's not much better than THD method. THD, MEM_ROOT are
> generic classes, they should know nothing about classes they provide
> services for.

okay

Regards,
Sergei
VP of MariaDB Server Engineering
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