On 17.05.22 20:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> So I think Peter's got a good idea here (I might quibble with the details
> of some of these macros). But it's not really going to move the
> safety goalposts very far unless we make a concerted effort to make
> these be the style everywhere. Are we willing to do that? What
> will it do to back-patching difficulty? Dare I suggest back-patching
> these changes?
I think it could go like the castNode() introduction: first we adopt it
sporadically for new code, then we change over some larger pieces of
code, then we backpatch the API, then someone sends in a big patch to
change the rest.