On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:19:14PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By my count there are only 170 uses of VARATT_SIZEP in the entire > backend (including contrib) so this is not an especially daunting > change. It would break existing user-written functions that return > varlena values, but the fix wouldn't be painful for them either. Could the "new style" macros be back-ported to previous releases in case we do this? That way module maintainers wouldn't need to maintain two different sets of code for it - they could use the new style and just compile it against an older version of pg? //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate