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    Remove create_singleton_array(), hard-coding the case in its sole caller. · 23c6eb03
    Tom Lane authored
    create_singleton_array() was not really as useful as we perhaps thought
    when we added it.  It had never accreted more than one call site, and is
    only saving a dozen lines of code at that one, which is considerably less
    bulk than the function itself.  Moreover, because of its insistence on
    using the caller's fn_extra cache space, it's arguably a coding hazard.
    text_to_array_internal() does not currently use fn_extra in any other way,
    but if it did it would be subtly broken, since the conflicting fn_extra
    uses could be needed within a single query, in the seldom-tested case that
    the field separator varies during the query.  The same objection seems
    likely to apply to any other potential caller.
    
    The replacement code is a bit uglier, because it hardwires knowledge of
    the storage parameters of type TEXT, but it's not like we haven't got
    dozens or hundreds of other places that do the same.  Uglier seems like
    a good tradeoff for smaller, faster, and safer.
    
    Per discussion with Neha Khatri.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFO0U+_fS5SRhzq6uPG+4fbERhoA9N2+nPrtvaC9mmeWivxbsA@mail.gmail.com
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