Re: remove unnecessary explicit type conversion (to char) for appendStringInfoChar function calls - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2025-04-11 Fr 1:36 PM, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> Hi,
> In the current master code, 3 places we are using appendStringInfoChar
> call with explicit type conversion into char. This is not needed as
> all other places, we are using direct character to append.
>
> --- a/src/backend/tcop/postgres.c
> +++ b/src/backend/tcop/postgres.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ InteractiveBackend(StringInfo inBuf)
>           */
>
>          /* Add '\0' to make it look the same as message case. */
> -       appendStringInfoChar(inBuf, (char) '\0');
> +       appendStringInfoChar(inBuf, '\0');
>
> Here, I am attaching a small patch to fix these 3 type conversions on head.
>


Seems odd that this one is necessary at all. Doesn't a StringInfo always 
have a trailing null byte?


cheers


andrew



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