On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:09 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> an enum field right in the context. You'll have to do an extra step to
> discover the context's type, and if you jump to the wrong conclusion
> and do, say,
> p *(AllocSetContext *) ptr_value
> when it's really some other context type, there won't be anything
> as obvious as "type = T_GenerationContext" in what is printed to
> tell you you were wrong.
Doesn't the proposed magic number address this concern?
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