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From: Kirill Reshke <[email protected]>
To: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Define DatumGetInt8 function.
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 19:12:33 +0500
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 at 16:50, David Rowley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 at 05:01, Kirill Reshke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, OK. Removal is also fine for me, because it is at least consistent.
>

> Kirill, are you working on this patch?


Hi!
Yes, PFA.

 > I've not studied in detail,
> but looks like it would require making
> char_decrement()/char_increment() and btcharskipsupport() all use
> CharGetDatum()/DatumGetChar() and switch to using SCHAR_MIN/SCHAR_MAX
> rather than 0/UCHAR_MAX.

This is also a possible change, and can be a separate patch. I will
try to also work on this this week.



-- 
Best regards,
Kirill Reshke


Attachments:

  [application/octet-stream] v1-0001-Remove-Int8GetDatum-function.patch (871B, 2-v1-0001-Remove-Int8GetDatum-function.patch)
  download | inline diff:
From 3c1447752d086932e9379d5866a995911e88760b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: reshke <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:03:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v1] Remove Int8GetDatum function.

We have no uses of Int8GetDatum in our tree and
did not have for a long time (or never).

Suggested-by: 	Tom Lane <[email protected]>
---
 src/include/postgres.h | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/include/postgres.h b/src/include/postgres.h
index 9268e6832cc..6423c87c64e 100644
--- a/src/include/postgres.h
+++ b/src/include/postgres.h
@@ -134,16 +134,6 @@ CharGetDatum(char X)
 	return (Datum) X;
 }
 
-/*
- * Int8GetDatum
- *		Returns datum representation for an 8-bit integer.
- */
-static inline Datum
-Int8GetDatum(int8 X)
-{
-	return (Datum) X;
-}
-
 /*
  * DatumGetUInt8
  *		Returns 8-bit unsigned integer value of a datum.
-- 
2.43.0



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