Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> > I'm surprised that this stuff was only ever used for logical decoding
> > infrastructure so far.
>
> On second thought, having tried it, one reason is that that breaks
> things that are considered legitimate for historical reasons. For
> example, AttrNumber is often used with READ_INT_FIELD(), which is an
> int16. Whether or not it's worth fixing that by introducing a
> READ_ATTRNUM_FIELD() (and so on) is not obvious to me.
If it allows us to introduce additional checking for new code, I'm all
for it.
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