Re: Removing typename from A_Const (was: Empty arrays with ARRAY[])

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Removing typename from A_Const (was: Empty arrays with ARRAY[])
Date: 2008-04-28 16:27:02
Message-ID: 20080428162702.GC5761@alvh.no-ip.org
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Brendan Jurd escribió:

> Here's my attempt to remove the typename field from A_Const. There
> were a few places (notably flatten_set_variable_args() in guc.c, and
> typenameTypeMod() in parse_type.c) where the code expected to see an
> A_Const with a typename, and I had to adjust for an A_Const within a
> TypeCast. Nonetheless, there was an overall net reduction of 34 lines
> of code, so I think this was a win.

Do say ... why don't we do away with A_Const altogether and just replace
it with Value? After this patch, I don't see what's the difference.

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