Re: get rid of Pointer type, mostly

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

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

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Date: 2025-11-24T19:38:25Z

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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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I don't understand leaving it in place for GIN.

> I haven't tried removing it for GIN so I don't know how awkward that
> would be or for what reasons, but...

Well, either Peter just ran out of energy or there is actually some
notational value in Pointer.  If it's the latter, I'd like to know.

			regards, tom lane