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Re: enhanced error fields

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-07-03T16:36:51Z
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  1. Create a "sort support" interface API for faster sorting.

Hi,

On Monday, July 02, 2012 04:19:56 PM Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> The first thing I noticed about the patch was that inline functions
> are used freely. While I personally don't find this unreasonable, we
> recently revisited the question of whether or not it is necessary to
> continue to support compilers that do not support something equivalent
> to GNU C inline functions (or that cannot be made to support them via
> macro hacks). The outcome of that was that it remains necessary to use
> macros to provide non-inline equivalent functions. For a good example
> of how that was dealt with quite extensively, see the sortsupport
> commit:
> 
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c6e3ac11b60ac
> 4a8942ab964252d51c1c0bd8845
> 
> In particular, take a look at the new file sortsupport.h .
I actually find sortsupport.h not to be a good example in general because it 
duplicates the code. Unless youre dealing with minor amounts of code playing 
macro tricks like I did in the ilist stuff  seems to be a better idea.

Greetings,

Andres
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