Hi,

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:56:35AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 28.09.25 05:02, Chao Li wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Yeah.  In particular, probably 99% of such Datum arrays also have an
> >     associated array of bool isnull flags.  IMO it makes exactly zero
> >     sense to const-ify the Datums without similar protection for their
> >     isnull flags.
> > 
> > 
> > Based on Tom's comment, I have made the scope a little broader. If a
> > function's "Datum *" parameter is changed to const, then if it has a
> > pairing "bool *isnull" parameter, I make it const as well. Also, if the
> > function has other pointer parameters that can be const, I change them
> > to const as well. See v3 attached.
> 
> I have committed this. 

FWIW, I just submitted a patch [1] that extends this approach to all pointer 
types.

[1]: 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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