On 19.12.22 07:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Also, the argument type of appendBinaryStringInfo() is char *. There is > some code that uses this function to assemble some kind of packed binary > layout, which requires a bunch of casts because of this. I think > functions taking binary data plus length should take void * instead, > like memcpy() for example.
I found a little follow-up for this one: Make the same change to pq_sendbytes(), which is a thin wrapper around appendBinaryStringInfo(). This would allow getting rid of further casts at call sites.
+1
Has all the benefits that 54a177a948b0a773c25c6737d1cc3cc49222a526 had.