Re: Remove Item type

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove Item type
Date: 2025-10-24 15:32:15
Message-ID: aPub_68eBychat1T@nathan
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 12:20:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> So I'm proposing to remove the Item type, replace it with void * in
> function prototypes, and remove all the casts.

The general idea seems reasonable to me, but I'm a little concerned that
using "void *" could break extensions written in C++ (see commit d5ca15e).
I haven't confirmed there's an actual issue here, though.

--
nathan

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