Re: appendBinaryStringInfo stuff

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 7:16 AM Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On 19.12.22 07:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Also, the argument type of appendBinaryStringInfo() is char *. There is
> > some code that uses this function to assemble some kind of packed binary
> > layout, which requires a bunch of casts because of this. I think
> > functions taking binary data plus length should take void * instead,
> > like memcpy() for example.
>
> I found a little follow-up for this one: Make the same change to
> pq_sendbytes(), which is a thin wrapper around appendBinaryStringInfo().
> This would allow getting rid of further casts at call sites.
>

+1

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