Re: [HACKERS] Adding some const keywords to external interfaces

Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> These are good points. Can you post the patch again? I deleted it.

I bounced it directly to you rather than reposting to the list.

> Sounds like it would be safe. I am interested in const-ify-ing the
> backend code, if possible. It does offer a level of code checking that
> we don't currently have.

Me too but as I said, this patch doesn't do that. It only const-ifies
the the arguments to an external interface.

> The only issue is that is has to be done pretty exhaustively. If you
> don't, your new const function parameters start passing params to
> functions that takes non-const params, and warnings start to fly.

I compiled the entire tree without any warnings so I assume that the
changes wound up being pretty localized.

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