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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Corey Huinker <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: appendBinaryStringInfo stuff
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:51:02 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkLM=cprBDinpS71gWNKUc48cciRuBQou76Q2gCSfrvboNFxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10.02.23 20:08, Corey Huinker wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 7:16 AM Peter Eisentraut 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 19.12.22 07:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>      > Also, the argument type of appendBinaryStringInfo() is char *. 
>     There is
>      > some code that uses this function to assemble some kind of packed
>     binary
>      > layout, which requires a bunch of casts because of this.  I think
>      > functions taking binary data plus length should take void * instead,
>      > like memcpy() for example.
> 
>     I found a little follow-up for this one: Make the same change to
>     pq_sendbytes(), which is a thin wrapper around
>     appendBinaryStringInfo().
>        This would allow getting rid of further casts at call sites.
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> Has all the benefits that 54a177a948b0a773c25c6737d1cc3cc49222a526 had.
> 
> Passes make check-world.

committed, thanks






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