Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> To clarify, I believe the rule is that the first variable-length field
>> can be accessed as a struct field.  Are there any exceptions to this?
>
> If it is known not null, yes, but I wonder just how many places actually
> depend on that.  It might be better to remove all varlena fields from C
> visibility and require use of the accessor functions.  We should at
> least look into what that would cost us.

My impression is that all the varlena fields also allow nulls. So I
think there's no point in trying to keep the first one C-accessible.

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