Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs
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Msg-id 17296.1327630268@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On mån, 2012-01-09 at 14:04 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> #ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN           /* variable-length fields start here
>> */
>> 
>> to be even clearer.
>> 
>> What would be appropriate to add instead of those inconsistently-used
>> comments is explicit comments about the exception cases such as
>> proargtypes, to make it clear that the placement of the #ifdef
>> CATALOG_VARLEN is intentional and not a bug in those cases.

> I implemented your suggestions in the attached patch.

This looks ready to go to me, except for one trivial nit: in
pg_extension.h, please keep the comment pointing out that extversion
should never be null.
        regards, tom lane


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