Re: Renaming PG_GETARG functions (was Re: PG_GETARG_GISTENTRY?)

From: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Renaming PG_GETARG functions (was Re: PG_GETARG_GISTENTRY?)
Date: 2017-09-12 22:16:01
Message-ID: DC665FAC-B869-4F0D-8737-B1ED1D5582F6@gmail.com
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> On Sep 12, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> [ changing subject line to possibly draw more attention ]
>
> Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Apr 5, 2017, at 9:23 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> In short, if you are supposed to write
>>> FOO *val = PG_GETARG_FOO(n);
>>> then the macro designer blew it, because the name implies that it
>>> returns FOO, not pointer to FOO. This should be
>>> FOO *val = PG_GETARG_FOO_P(n);
>
>> I have written a patch to fix these macro definitions across src/ and
>> contrib/.
>

Thanks, Tom, for reviewing my patch.

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