Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> While trying to refactor the node support in various ways, the Value
> node is always annoying.
[…]
> This change removes the Value struct and node type and replaces them
> by separate Integer, Float, String, and BitString node types that are
> proper node types and structs of their own and behave mostly like
> normal node types.
This looks like a nice cleanup overall, independent of any future
refactoring.
> Also, this removes the T_Null node tag, which was previously also a
> possible variant of Value but wasn't actually used outside of the
> Value contained in A_Const. Replace that by an isnull field in
> A_Const.
However, the patch adds:
> +typedef struct Null
> +{
> + NodeTag type;
> + char *val;
> +} Null;
which doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Is that a leftoverf from an
intermediate development stage?
- ilmari
