Re: remove bits* types

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-19T09:34:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-Mar-18, Robert Haas wrote:

> I'm not entirely sure that this is worth standardizing at all; if
> someone thinks that using bits8 or whatever makes the code more rather
> than less clear in a certain context, who am I to argue? If someone
> else prefers uint8 in another context, also fine.

I don't think we _have_ to force our hand one way or the other.

-- 
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Commits

  1. Remove bits* typedefs.