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Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-08T04:18:03Z
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Hi,

On 2019-08-08 11:36:44 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > you can only put one <declaration> into the first element of a
> > for (;;).
> >
> 
> Use an anonymous block outer scope? Or if not permitted even by C99 (which
> I think it is), a do {...} while (0);  hack?

You can't easily - the problem is that there's no real way to add the
closing }, because that's after the macro.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Remove EState.es_range_table_array.

  2. Rationalize use of list_concat + list_copy combinations.

  3. Cosmetic improvements in setup of planner's per-RTE arrays.

  4. Make better use of the new List implementation in a couple of places

  5. Fix sepgsql test results for commit d97b714a2.

  6. Avoid using lcons and list_delete_first where it's easy to do so.

  7. Remove lappend_cell...() family of List functions.

  8. Clean up some ad-hoc code for sorting and de-duplicating Lists.

  9. Redesign the API for list sorting (list_qsort becomes list_sort).

  10. Remove dead code.

  11. Represent Lists as expansible arrays, not chains of cons-cells.

  12. Standardize some more loops that chase down parallel lists.

  13. Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.