Re: failed to compile a C++ SPI function

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I am willing to change it to typname. Any comments?
>
> That's hardly the only change you will have to make to get the headers
> to pass through a C++ compiler without complaint. How many existing
> applications do you want to risk breaking?
>
> ParamNo probably isn't a widely used node type, but there are four
> structs with fields named 'typename' and one with a field named 'class'
> just in parsenodes.h.
>
> I think that before we start making changes with C++ cleanness as a
> goal, we should try to get a precise idea of the extent of the changes
> that would be needed, and then estimate how much user code might
> reference the fields we'd need to rename.

Agreed.

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