Re: Add const qualifiers to XLogRegister*() functions
Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2024-08-28T10:04:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi, > On 04.10.23 16:37, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 03.10.23 13:28, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > >> While examining the code for similar places I noticed that the > >> following functions can also be const'ified: > > >> - XLogRegisterData (?) > > > > I don't think this would work, at least without further work elsewhere, > > because the data is stored in XLogRecData, which has no const handling. > > I got around to fixing this. Here is a patch. It allows removing a few > unconstify() calls, which is nice. LGTM. Note that this may affect third-party code. IMO this is not a big deal in this particular case. Also by randomly checking one of the affected non-static functions I found a bunch of calls like this: XLogRegisterData((char *) msgs, ...) ... where the first argument is going to become (const char *). It looks like the compilers are OK with implicitly casting (char*) to a more restrictive (const char*) though. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
Commits
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Add const qualifiers to XLogRegister*() functions
- 2b5f57977f6d 18.0 landed
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Constify crc32_sz
- 688926633fc6 17.0 landed
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Modernize const handling with readline
- 8666cf65ea69 17.0 landed