Excerpts from Kohei KaiGai's message of lun ago 08 12:18:47 -0400 2011:
> 2011/8/8 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> > We could do that, but what the heck is the point? What benefit are
> > we trying to get by not returning a pointer to the structure? I feel
> > like we're making this ludicrously complicated with no real
> > justification of why all of this complexity is adding any value.
> >
> I agree with Robert's opinion. It seems to me we have little benefit to
> keep the structure condidential to other components.
So you coded my suggestion in an extremely awkward way just to be able
to dismiss it?
We use that pattern in a lot of places. See get_op_opfamily_properties
for the first example I found (took my 15 secs to find it). I don't
understand why you think it's so complicated or horrible.
Please tell me, why don't we just return Form_pg_amop in that function?
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