On 2018-03-26 15:26:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2018-02-06 15:43:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> void* isn't necessarily compatible with function pointers --- there are
> >> platforms where they're physically different widths, though possibly
> >> you'd never get PG to run on such hardware anyway.
>
> > Btw, given that we store function pointers in datums, that ship has
> > sailed a long while ago, no?
>
> We do? Data pointers, sure, but I can't think of any use of the other.
It seems I've misremembered. For some reason I was quite certain that
the resowner callback facility, dynamic bgworkers, and fdws did so,
but...
Greetings,
Andres Freund