Hi hackers,
I've noticed that there is a lot of code, particularly in src/backend,
that goes through the motions of making a text datum into a cstring to
perform some work on it, and likewise for making a cstring into a text
datum.
Is there not a nice macro somewhere to handle this consistently? And
if not, shouldn't there be?
I noticed a comment for StrNCpy() in src/include/c.h that seems related:
/* BTW: when you need to copy a non-null-terminated string (like a
text datum) and add a null, do not do it with StrNCpy [snip] Do it
honestly with "memcpy(dst,src,len); dst[len] = '\0'; instead."
Okay, I can see why using StrNCpy is a bad idea, but why not "Do it
honestly with TEXT_CSTRING(src, dst)", or similar?
Surely having the exact same four lines of code written out in dozens
of places is a Bad Thing, but perhaps there is some reasoning behind
this that I am missing?
Thanks for your time,
BJ
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