Re: Today's failures on buildfarm member longfin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Today's failures on buildfarm member longfin
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Msg-id CA+Tgmoaj+Z7ed6dsAfUAnpgvQYs3jszC7KKktbtZMR8KREUL7Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> As noted in the other thread, we could either fix this in a
> quick-and-dirty way by casting XLR_BLOCK_ID_DATA_SHORT and related
> values to "char" explicitly, or we could run around and change the
> target pointer variables to be "unsigned char *".  The latter could
> prove to be pretty invasive if we try to carry it out fully, while
> if we don't, then we're arguably just moving the ugly casts someplace
> else.
>
> Opinions?

signed char sucks.  Let's hit it with a stick.

:-)

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Robert Haas
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