| From: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, David Geier <geidav(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: | 2026-02-09 03:06:35 |
| Message-ID: | 70f8b2c1-2f45-4ed9-a335-72d48228820c@proxel.se |
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On 1/26/26 11:20 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> After further consideration, I think it is best to leave this alone as
> is. One particular problem is that Pointer is part of the documented
> API of GIN, and if we either remove it or rename it, then this would
> create a bunch of work for extensions to keep their code compiling
> across major versions.
Seems like something which is easy for extension authors to fix. As an
extension author myself I do not mind simple clean breaks like this. It
is the moe subtle breaks that are painful.
Andreas
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