Use structs to avoid confusing C pointer wrappers #4961
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When working on ADBC, a bit of time was lost because those pointers were used incorrectly. This PR uses pointers to anonymous
struct
s instead of plainvoid
pointers, avoiding the following error kinds:duckdb_database
vs.duckdb_connection
duckdb_database
vs.duckdb_database*
If we agree that this (or a similar approach) is useful, I can proceed with securing the four remaining typedefs which currently break the build.