Re: [HACKERS] Add some const decorations to prototypes

> On Oct 31, 2017, at 7:46 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a patch that adds const decorations to many char * arguments in
> functions.  It should have no impact otherwise; there are very few code
> changes caused by it.  Some functions have a strtol()-like behavior
> where they take in a const char * and return a pointer into that as
> another argument.  In those cases, I added a cast or two.
>
> Generally, I find these const decorations useful as easy function
> documentation.

+1

I submitted something similar a while back and got into a back and forth
discussion with Tom about it.  Anyone interested could take a look at

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ACF3A030-E3D5-4E68-B744-184E11DE68F3%40gmail.com




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