Re: Consolidate ItemPointer to Datum conversion functions

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-02-09T08:33:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 06.02.23 11:11, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 06/02/2023 11:54, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Instead of defining the same set of macros several times, define it once
>> in an appropriate header file.  In passing, convert to inline functions.
> 
> Looks good to me. Did you consider moving PG_GETARG_ITEMPOINTER and 
> PG_RETURN_ITEMPOINTER, too? They're only used in tid.c, but for most 
> datatypes, we define the PG_GETARG and PG_RETURN macros in the same 
> header file as the the Datum conversion functions.

Yeah that makes sense.  Here is an updated patch for that.

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  1. Consolidate ItemPointer to Datum conversion functions