On 3/23/20 1:33 AM, James Coleman wrote:
> So on the face of it we have a bit of a no-win situation. The function
> tuple_sort_method_name returns a const, but lappend wants a non-const.
> I'm not sure what the project style preference is here: we could cast
> the result as (char *) to drop the const qualifier, but that's frowned
> upon some places. Alternatively we could make a new non-const copy of
> string. Which is preferable in the postgres project style?
The PostgreSQL has places where const is explicitly casted away with the
unconstify() macro, so unless you can find a better solution that is
probably an ok option.
Andreas