Re: Any reason to have heap_(de)formtuple?

The sad thing us that I also did a patch for this and lost it. I think
it wouldn't be too hard to convert all the call sites in the backend
and provide a wrapper for other users.

greg

On 23 Oct 2008, at 08:59 PM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> Well, aside from the gruntwork needed to convert all the core code
>> that still uses the old APIs, there's the prospect of breaking
>> extension modules that still use the old APIs. It's kind of
>> annoying to have two copies of that code, but less annoying than
>> removing it would be ...
>>
>
> The problem with trying to deprecate it is that the vast majority of
> the backend is still using the old interfaces, so people looking for
> inspiration for their external modules will likely end up using the
> old interface. Like Alvaro I started this conversion a while ago,
> got bored, and forgot about it. If people do want this conversion
> done while keeping the old interface around, I can track down that
> patch, update it and finish it up for the next CommitFest.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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