Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> We agreed to skip this right now, right?
I still think it's benign at worst. Shall I keepthe changes and resubmit
later?
> > Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > > These are good points. Can you post the patch again? I deleted it.
> >
> > I bounced it directly to you rather than reposting to the list.
> >
> > > Sounds like it would be safe. I am interested in const-ify-ing the
> > > backend code, if possible. It does offer a level of code checking that
> > > we don't currently have.
> >
> > Me too but as I said, this patch doesn't do that. It only const-ifies
> > the the arguments to an external interface.
> >
> > > The only issue is that is has to be done pretty exhaustively. If you
> > > don't, your new const function parameters start passing params to
> > > functions that takes non-const params, and warnings start to fly.
> >
> > I compiled the entire tree without any warnings so I assume that the
> > changes wound up being pretty localized.
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