Re: useless RangeIOData->typiofunc

On 3/4/20 1:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I noticed while going over the multirange types patch that it adds a
> pointless typiofunc cached OID to a struct used for I/O functions'
> fn_extra. It seems to go completely unused, so I checked range types
> (which this was cribbed from) and indeed, it is completely unused there
> either. My guess is that it was in turn cribbed from array's
> ArrayMetaState, which is considerably more sophisticated; I suspect
> nobody noticed that caching it was pointless.

I didn't believe it at first but I think you're right. :-)

> Here's a patch to remove it from rangetypes.c. It doesn't really waste
> much memory anyway, but removing it lessens the cognitive load by one or
> two bits.

Looks good to me, and it seems okay to make the same edits to
multirangetypes.c

Yours,

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Paul ~{:-)
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