Re: Dead code? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Dead code?
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Msg-id 20060905122535.GH14312@svana.org
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In response to Dead code?  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
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> Is there anywhere we make use of this code that handles attlen == -2?
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> If so I'm curious where because I was thinking of doing something similar and
> didn't realise we already had this capability. But I suspect it's just dead
> code left over, possibly from the days before the Name data type?

attlen -2 is used for cstring (null terminated strings).

Hope this helps,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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