Re: [HACKERS] Adding some const keywords to external interfaces

We agreed to skip this right now, right?


> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > These are good points.  Can you post the patch again?  I deleted it. 
> 
> I bounced it directly to you rather than reposting to the list.
> 
> > Sounds like it would be safe.  I am interested in const-ify-ing the
> > backend code, if possible.  It does offer a level of code checking that
> > we don't currently have.
> 
> Me too but as I said, this patch doesn't do that.  It only const-ifies
> the the arguments to an external interface.
> 
> > The only issue is that is has to be done pretty exhaustively.  If you
> > don't, your new const function parameters start passing params to
> > functions that takes non-const params, and warnings start to fly.
> 
> I compiled the entire tree without any warnings so I assume that the
> changes wound up being pretty localized.
> 
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