On 17.05.22 20:43, Tom Lane wrote:
So I think Peter's got a good idea here (I might quibble with the details of some of these macros). But it's not really going to move the safety goalposts very far unless we make a concerted effort to make these be the style everywhere. Are we willing to do that? What will it do to back-patching difficulty? Dare I suggest back-patching these changes?
I think it could go like the castNode() introduction: first we adopt it sporadically for new code, then we change over some larger pieces of code, then we backpatch the API, then someone sends in a big patch to change the rest.
