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authorPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>2025-10-27 09:54:16 +0100
committerPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>2025-10-27 09:55:59 +0100
commit76acf4b722faa2a552f62034b793c2797909f91b (patch)
tree43ddf923e05c8cfa56097d5634f5f2d4c1d8015c /src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
parent64d2b0968ea494cb11900ffb7681b5784e4112b9 (diff)
Remove Item type
This type is just char * underneath, it provides no real value, no type safety, and just makes the code one level more mysterious. It is more idiomatic to refer to blobs of memory by a combination of void * and size_t, so change it to that. Also, since this type hides the pointerness, we can't apply qualifiers to what is pointed to, which requires some unconstify nonsense. This change allows fixing that. Extension code that uses the Item type can change its code to use void * to be backward compatible. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c75cccf5-5709-407b-a36a-2ae6570be766@eisentraut.org
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
index dbb49ed9197..aac6e695954 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ PageIsVerified(PageData *page, BlockNumber blkno, int flags, bool *checksum_fail
*/
OffsetNumber
PageAddItemExtended(Page page,
- Item item,
+ const void *item,
Size size,
OffsetNumber offsetNumber,
int flags)
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ PageIndexTupleDeleteNoCompact(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum)
*/
bool
PageIndexTupleOverwrite(Page page, OffsetNumber offnum,
- Item newtup, Size newsize)
+ const void *newtup, Size newsize)
{
PageHeader phdr = (PageHeader) page;
ItemId tupid;