Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs
Date: 2012-01-26 18:01:21
Message-ID: 1327600881.26839.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On mån, 2012-01-09 at 14:04 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> #ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN /* variable-length fields start here
> */
>
> to be even clearer.
>
> What would be appropriate to add instead of those inconsistently-used
> comments is explicit comments about the exception cases such as
> proargtypes, to make it clear that the placement of the #ifdef
> CATALOG_VARLEN is intentional and not a bug in those cases.
>
I implemented your suggestions in the attached patch.

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catalog-varlen.patch text/x-patch 23.6 KB

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