Re: [PATCH] binary heap implementation

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> [ new patch ]

I went over this again today with a view to getting it committed, but
discovered some compiler warnings that look like this:

warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

The problem seems to be that the binary heap implementation wants the
key and value to be a void *, but the way it's being used in
nodeMergeAppend.c the value is actually an int. I don't think we want
to commit a binary heap implementation which has an impedance mismatch
of this type with its only client. The obvious solution seems to be
to make the key and value each a Datum, and then clients can use
WhateverGetDatum and DatumGetWhatever to pass whatever built-in data
type they happen to have. I'm trying that approach now and will post
an updated patch based on that approach if it seems to work OK and
nobody suggests something better between now and then.

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