Re: Improve node type forward reference

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-10-14T21:28:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 09:47:59AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> But we can do this better by using an incomplete struct, like
> 
>         struct Query *viewQuery ...;
> 
> That way, everything has the correct type and fewer casts are required. This
> technique is already used elsewhere in node type definitions.

I noticed that the examples in parsenodes.h are for structs defined within
the same file.  If the struct is defined in a separate file, I guess you
might need to include another header file wherever it is used, but that
doesn't seem too bad.

> The second patch just removes some more unnecessary casts around
> copyObject() that I found while working on this.

LGTM

-- 
nathan



Commits

  1. Fix unnecessary casts of copyObject() result

  2. Improve node type forward reference