Re: hiding variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-27T02:11:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On mn, 2012-01-09 at 14:04 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> #ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN           /* variable-length fields start here
>> */
>> 
>> to be even clearer.
>> 
>> What would be appropriate to add instead of those inconsistently-used
>> comments is explicit comments about the exception cases such as
>> proargtypes, to make it clear that the placement of the #ifdef
>> CATALOG_VARLEN is intentional and not a bug in those cases.

> I implemented your suggestions in the attached patch.

This looks ready to go to me, except for one trivial nit: in
pg_extension.h, please keep the comment pointing out that extversion
should never be null.

			regards, tom lane