Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly

David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>

From: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-12-08T10:25:28Z

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Remove no longer needed casts from Pointer
- e158fd4d68f4 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove no longer needed casts to Pointer
- c6be3daa054a 19 (unreleased) landed
Change Pointer to void *
- 1b2bb5077e9e 19 (unreleased) landed
Don't rely on pointer arithmetic with Pointer type
- 756a43689324 19 (unreleased) landed
Use more appropriate DatumGet* function
- 8c6bbd674ed8 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove useless casts to Pointer
- 623801b3bdb4 19 (unreleased) landed

Hi Peter,
> I went with your proposal of GinExtraPointer. See attached patch. It's
> based on the series of patches from Peter's initial mail. I've included
> the removal of the Pointer typedef in the same patch.

It seems to me that we reached agreement. Are you planning to still
apply these patches?

--
David Geier