| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Making type Datum be 8 bytes everywhere |
| Date: | 2025-07-31 14:13:10 |
| Message-ID: | b16ae4da-a5fe-4c57-b3d7-0ed9f7a95168@eisentraut.org |
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On 18.07.25 18:26, Andres Freund wrote:
> One of these days I should again try the experiment of making Datum into a
> struct, to automatically catch omissions of datum <-> native type. Having them
> be silent most of the time really sucks. I suspect that if we get the
> 64bit-datum-on-32bit-platform code to be warning-free, it'd get a lot easier
> to struct-ify Datum. I don't recall the details, but I suspect that all the
> varlena macros etc were the problem with that.
Patch posted here for demonstration:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8246d7ff-f4b7-4363-913e-827dadfeb145%40eisentraut.org
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