Casts aclitem earl to avoid O(2n)

aclitem_parse_test.go

@@ -36,62 +36,62 @@ func TestEscapeAclItem(t *testing.T) {
 func TestParseAclItemArray(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		input    string
-		expected []string
+		expected []AclItem
 		errMsg   string
 	}{
 		{
 			"",
-			[]string{},
+			[]AclItem{},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			"one",
-			[]string{"one"},
+			[]AclItem{"one"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one"`,
-			[]string{"one"},
+			[]AclItem{"one"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			"one,two,three",
-			[]string{"one", "two", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one","two","three"`,
-			[]string{"one", "two", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one",two,"three"`,
-			[]string{"one", "two", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`one,two,"three"`,
-			[]string{"one", "two", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one","two",three`,
-			[]string{"one", "two", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one","t w o",three`,
-			[]string{"one", "t w o", "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "t w o", "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one","t, w o\"\}\\",three`,
-			[]string{"one", `t, w o"}\`, "three"},
+			[]AclItem{"one", `t, w o"}\`, "three"},
 			"",
 		},
 		{
 			`"one","two",three"`,
-			[]string{"one", "two", `three"`},
+			[]AclItem{"one", "two", `three"`},
 			"",
 		},
 		{

values.go

@@ -3057,11 +3057,11 @@ func encodeAclItemSlice(w *WriteBuf, oid Oid, aclitems []AclItem) error {
 
 // parseAclItemArray parses the textual representation
 // of the aclitem[] type.
-func parseAclItemArray(arr string) ([]string, error) {
+func parseAclItemArray(arr string) ([]AclItem, error) {
 	r := strings.NewReader(arr)
 	// Difficult to guess a performant initial capacity for a slice of
 	// aclitems, but let's go with 5.
-	vals := make([]string, 0, 5)
+	vals := make([]AclItem, 0, 5)
 	// A single value
 	vlu := ""
 	for {
@@ -3094,13 +3094,13 @@ func parseAclItemArray(arr string) ([]string, error) {
 		if err != nil {
 			if err == io.EOF {
 				// This error was expected and is OK.
-				vals = append(vals, vlu)
+				vals = append(vals, AclItem(vlu))
 				return vals, nil
 			}
 			// This error was not expected.
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		vals = append(vals, vlu)
+		vals = append(vals, AclItem(vlu))
 	}
 }
 
@@ -3192,13 +3192,7 @@ func decodeAclItemArray(vr *ValueReader) []AclItem {
 		vr.Fatal(ProtocolError(err.Error()))
 		return nil
 	}
-
-	// cast strings into AclItems before returning
-	aclitems := make([]AclItem, len(strs))
-	for i := range aclitems {
-		aclitems[i] = AclItem(strs[i])
-	}
-	return aclitems
+	return strs
 }
 
 func encodeStringSlice(w *WriteBuf, oid Oid, slice []string) error {