Re: Datum as struct

Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
> On 08.08.25 22:30, Andres Freund wrote:
>> One thing that would be an interesting follow-up would be to make the struct
>> not just carry the datum, but also the type of the field, to be filled in by
>> tuple deforming and the *GetDatum() functions. Then we could assert that the
>> correct DatumGet*() functions are used. I think that'd allow us to detect a
>> rather large number of issues that we currently aren't finding

> That would make Datum >=9 bytes? Is that something we would need to
> worry about in terms of performance?

It'd have to be a cassert-like option, not something you'd enable in
production.

regards, tom lane