On Sep 23 2025, at 12:46 pm, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 01:43:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> This patch seems to be rather full of arbitrary casts to or
>>> from Datum, which is no longer okay.  You need to be using
>>> the appropriate conversion macros, such as PointerGetDatum.

Tom, thanks for pointing out the oversight.  Apologies, I should have
tried that out in my local tests.

>> Right, this can ve reproduced with a -m32 added to gcc.
> 
> Curiously, I don't see these warnings on 32-bit FreeBSD
> (with clang version 19.1.7).  But I tested your patch on
> mamba's host and confirmed that it makes that gcc happy.
> 
>> I don't see a need for a Datum manipulation in these conversion
>> macros, as we already allocate the results to and from "text"
>> before/after using the GETARG or RETURN macros.  Using directly
>> text_to_cstring() and cstring_to_text() takes care of the warnings, as
>> well.
> 
> Yeah, this is better, but I think the new macros could use a bit
> more parenthesis-twiddling:
> 
> +#define BITMAPSET_TO_TEXT(bms) cstring_to_text(nodeToString((bms)))

Agreed, that was my mistake.

> The extra parens around "bms" are surely unnecessary.  (If they were
> necessary, it could only be because nodeToString was a macro that
> failed to parenthesize its argument where needed.  But that would
> be a bug to fix in nodeToString, not here.)
> 
> +#define TEXT_TO_BITMAPSET(str) (Bitmapset *) 
> stringToNode(text_to_cstring(str))
> 
> Here, on the other hand, I think an extra outer set of parens
> would be a good idea, ie
> 
> +#define TEXT_TO_BITMAPSET(str) ((Bitmapset *) 
> stringToNode(text_to_cstring(str)))

Sounds reasonable to me.

> It may be that the C cast binds tightly enough that this cannot
> be a problem, but I don't think assuming that is project style.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane

patch attached, best.

-greg

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