On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 5:49 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I was thinking we'd basically do it wherever we do a GETSTRUCT() today.
>
> A first step could be to transform code like
> (Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple)
> into
> GETSTRUCT(pg_attribute, tuple)
>
> then, in a subsequent step, we'd redefine GETSTRUCT as something
> #define GESTRUCT(catalog, tuple) tuple_to_struct_##catalog(tuple)
That seems a little fraught, because you'd be turning what's now
basically a trivial operation into a non-trivial operation involving
memory allocation.
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Robert Haas
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