Magnus Hagander wrote: > 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?
Yes, Tom and I talked about this. It could appear in the next minor release of all branches. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org