Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Karlsson
Subject Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly
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Msg-id 70f8b2c1-2f45-4ed9-a335-72d48228820c@proxel.se
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In response to Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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On 1/26/26 11:20 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> After further consideration, I think it is best to leave this alone as 
> is.  One particular problem is that Pointer is part of the documented 
> API of GIN, and if we either remove it or rename it, then this would 
> create a bunch of work for extensions to keep their code compiling 
> across major versions.

Seems like something which is easy for extension authors to fix. As an 
extension author myself I do not mind simple clean breaks like this. It 
is the moe subtle breaks that are painful.

Andreas




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