Re: safer node casting

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2017-01-26T00:16:34Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi Peter,


On 2016-12-31 12:08:22 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>     RestrictInfo *rinfo = castNode(RestrictInfo, lfirst(lc));

Are you planning to add this / update this patch? Because I really would
have liked this a number of times already...  I can update it according
to my suggestions (to avoid multiple eval scenarios) if helpful

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

Suppress unused-variable warning.
- c56ac2913a1f 10.0 landed
Make more use of castNode()
- 38d103763d14 10.0 cited
Add castNode(type, ptr) for safe casting between NodeTag based types.
- 1ad163ef0130 9.3.16 landed
- 14d0e290cbe7 9.2.20 landed
- cf8c86af950b 9.4.11 landed
- 8fef0c34143b 9.5.6 landed
- 5bcab111426e 10.0 landed
- 574b091e5835 9.6.2 landed
Use the new castNode() macro in a number of places.
- 9ba8a9ce4548 10.0 landed