Name type vs. char * - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Name type vs. char *
Date
Msg-id 199807200448.AAA17784@candle.pha.pa.us
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] Name type vs. char *  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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We currently use Name sometimes, and char* other times to store
relation, attribute, type, and view names.

One thing Mariposa did was to make that more consistent, so you passed
around Name(NameData pointers) instead of the more generic char *.
However, the Name fields behave like char*, but are clearer.

    typedef struct nameData
    {
        char        data[NAMEDATALEN];
    } NameData;
    typedef NameData *Name;

Do people see value in making this switch?  Would take me a few hours to
make the change.

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