Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly

From: David Geier <geidav(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly
Date: 2025-12-08 11:27:19
Message-ID: 0d5ca69a-91c7-4efb-a53a-9948a4f32717@gmail.com
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On 08.12.2025 12:14, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I was planning to proceed with Dagfinn's patch set.  Here is what is
> currently remaining of the patch series.  I haven't fully processed
> everyone's comments in this thread, so they might not be reflected in
> these patches.
Dagfinn's patch set turns Pointer into void *. I thought we had agreed
to use something like GinExtraPointer in the GIN code (see my patch set).

Either way is fine by me. It just seemed like the majority of commenters
where in favor of keeping some type in the GIN code for readability.
>
> There is some interference from the changes from palloc to
> palloc_object/_array/etc., and I was also trying to figure out what to
> do with the commented out code, hence the delay.
Understood.

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David Geier

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