Re: FETCH FIRST clause WITH TIES option

Hello

On 2020-Apr-07, Andres Freund wrote:

> On 2020-04-07 16:36:54 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Pushed, with some additional changes.
> 
> This triggers a new warning for me (gcc-10):
> /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/executor/nodeLimit.c: In function ‘ExecLimit’:
> /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/executor/nodeLimit.c:136:7: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>   136 |    if (ScanDirectionIsForward(direction))
>       |       ^
> /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/executor/nodeLimit.c:216:3: note: here
>   216 |   case LIMIT_WINDOWEND_TIES:
>       |   ^~~~
> 
> I've not looked at it in any sort of detail, but it looks like it might
> be a false positive, with the "fall-through" comment not being
> sufficient to quiesce the compiler?

It's on purpose, yeah, but I can understand the compiler not getting it.

> Cosmetically I would agree that falling through to the next case" a few
> blocks deep inside a case: isn't the prettiest...

That's true ... maybe a fix would be to split that stuff to a
subroutine?

Thanks

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