Re: Use boolean array for nulls parameters

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 23:45, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> japin <japinli@hotmail.com> writes:
>> When I review the [1], I find that the tuple's nulls array use char type.
>> However there are many places use boolean array to repsent the nulls array,
>> so I think we can replace the char type nulls array to boolean type.  This
>> change will break the SPI_xxx API, I'm not sure whether this chagnges cause
>> other problems or not.  Any thought?
>
> We have always considered that changing the APIs of published SPI
> interfaces is a non-starter.  The entire reason those calls still
> exist at all is for the benefit of third-party extensions.
>

Thanks for your clarify.  I agree that we should keep the APIs stable, maybe we
can modify this in someday when the APIs must be changed.

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