Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Would patches to not cast away const be considered?
In general, yes, but I'm not especially in favor of something like this:
> bool
> PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
> - Item newtup, Size newsize)
> + const char *newtup, Size newsize)
> {
since that seems to be discarding type information in order to add
"const"; does not seem like a net benefit from here.
regards, tom lane