Re: Remove Item type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Remove Item type
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In response to Remove Item type  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 12:20:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> So I'm proposing to remove the Item type, replace it with void * in
> function prototypes, and remove all the casts.

The general idea seems reasonable to me, but I'm a little concerned that
using "void *" could break extensions written in C++ (see commit d5ca15e).
I haven't confirmed there's an actual issue here, though.

-- 
nathan



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