Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > > I'm surprised that this stuff was only ever used for logical decoding > > infrastructure so far. > > On second thought, having tried it, one reason is that that breaks > things that are considered legitimate for historical reasons. For > example, AttrNumber is often used with READ_INT_FIELD(), which is an > int16. Whether or not it's worth fixing that by introducing a > READ_ATTRNUM_FIELD() (and so on) is not obvious to me.
If it allows us to introduce additional checking for new code, I'm all for it. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
