Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Here is a patch that adds const decorations to many char * arguments in > functions. It should have no impact otherwise; there are very few code > changes caused by it.
+1 in general ... > Some functions have a strtol()-like behavior > where they take in a const char * and return a pointer into that as > another argument. In those cases, I added a cast or two. ... but I'm not sure that it's an improvement in cases where you have to cast away the const somewhere else. I realize that strtol has an ancient pedigree, but I do not think it's very good design. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers