Re: Dead code?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dead code?
Date: 2006-09-05 12:25:35
Message-ID: 20060905122535.GH14312@svana.org
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
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> Is there anywhere we make use of this code that handles attlen == -2?
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> If so I'm curious where because I was thinking of doing something similar and
> didn't realise we already had this capability. But I suspect it's just dead
> code left over, possibly from the days before the Name data type?

attlen -2 is used for cstring (null terminated strings).

Hope this helps,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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