pgsql: Be pickier about converting between Name and Datum.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Be pickier about converting between Name and Datum.
Date: 2016-09-13 21:17:53
Message-ID: E1bjv5V-0001s9-N8@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Be pickier about converting between Name and Datum.

We were misapplying NameGetDatum() to plain C strings in some places.
This worked, because it was just a pointer cast anyway, but it's a type
cheat in some sense. Use CStringGetDatum instead, and modify the
NameGetDatum macro so it won't compile if applied to something that's
not a pointer to NameData. This should result in no changes to
generated code, but it is logically cleaner.

Mark Dilger, tweaked a bit by me

Discussion: <EFD8AC94-4C1F-40C1-A5EA-304080089C1B(at)gmail(dot)com>

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/55c3391d1e6a201b5b891781d21fe682a8c64fe6

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c | 8 ++++----
src/backend/commands/proclang.c | 2 +-
src/backend/commands/typecmds.c | 2 +-
src/include/postgres.h | 2 +-
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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