Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong argument to SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED in timestamptz_date

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 07:17:15AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 24.03.26 21:53, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> LGTM.  To prevent this from happening in the future, I think we ought to
>> change SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED to a static inline function.  I tried that, and
>> I got the following warnings:
>> 
>>      execExprInterp.c:4964:27: warning: incompatible pointer types passing 'ErrorSaveContext *' (aka 'struct
ErrorSaveContext*') to parameter of type 'Node *' (aka 'struct Node *') [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
 
>>       4964 |                 if (SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED(&jsestate->escontext))
>>            |                                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>      ../../../src/include/nodes/miscnodes.h:54:27: note: passing argument to parameter 'escontext' here
>>         54 | SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED(Node *escontext)
>>            |                           ^
>>      execExprInterp.c:5200:26: warning: incompatible pointer types passing 'ErrorSaveContext *' (aka 'struct
ErrorSaveContext*') to parameter of type 'Node *' (aka 'struct Node *') [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
 
>>       5200 |         if (SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED(&jsestate->escontext))
>>            |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>      ../../../src/include/nodes/miscnodes.h:54:27: note: passing argument to parameter 'escontext' here
>>         54 | SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED(Node *escontext)
>>            |                           ^
>> 
>> I think we just need to add casts to "Node *" for those.  AFAICT there
>> isn't an actual bug.
> 
> Or maybe we change the escontext field to be of type Node *?

I started looking at this, but it seems to be a rather invasive change for
the level of gain.  Not only does it require more memory management, but we
then have to cast it many places like this:

    ((ErrorSaveContext *) jsestate->escontext)->error_occured = false;

If we instead make it an ErrorSaveContext *, we'd still need to cast it to
Node * for SOFT_ERROR_OCCURRED, unless we had it accept a void * or
something, which defeats the purpose.

-- 
nathan