Re: clean up docs for v12

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2019-04-22T16:19:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2019-Apr-22, Andres Freund wrote:

> On 2019-04-22 14:48:26 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:

> >  	/*
> > -	 * Check if's guaranteed the all the desired attributes are available in
> > -	 * tuple. If so, we can start deforming. If not, need to make sure to
> > -	 * fetch the missing columns.
> > +	 * Check if all the desired attributes are available in the tuple.  If so,
> > +	 * we can start deforming.  If not, we need to make sure to fetch the
> > +	 * missing columns.
> >  	 */
> 
> That's imo not an improvement. The guaranteed bit is actually
> relevant. What this block is doing is eliding the check against the
> tuple header for the number of attributes, if NOT NULL attributes for
> later columns guarantee that the desired columns are present in the NULL
> bitmap. But the rephrasing makes it sound like we're actually checking
> against the tuple.
> 
> I think it'd be better just to fix s/the all/that all/.

(and s/if's/if it's/)

> 
> >  	if ((natts - 1) <= guaranteed_column_number)
> >  	{
> > @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ slot_compile_deform(LLVMJitContext *context, TupleDesc desc,
> >  
> >  		/*
> >  		 * If this is the first attribute, slot->tts_nvalid was 0. Therefore
> > -		 * reset offset to 0 to, it be from a previous execution.
> > +		 * reset offset to 0 too, as it may be from a previous execution.
> >  		 */
> >  		if (attnum == 0)
> >  		{
> 
> That obviously makes sense.

Hmm, I think "as it *is*", not "as it *may be*", right?

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Commits

  1. Improve code inferring length of bitmap for JITed tuple deforming.

  2. Fix more typos and inconsistencies in documentation

  3. Fix collection of typos and grammar mistakes in docs and comments

  4. Clean up some documentation for log_statement_sample_rate