Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-10-05T14:19:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> I've attached a draft patch for a method I was considering to fix the
> warnings we're getting from the nested PG_TRY() statement in
> utility.c.

+1

> The only warning remaining after applying the attached is the "now"
> warning in pgbench.c:7509.  I'd considered changing this to "thenow"
> which translates to "right now" in the part of Scotland that I'm from.
> I also considered "nownow", which is used in South Africa [1].
> Anyway, I'm not really being serious, but I didn't come up with
> anything better than "now2".

Yeah, "now2" seems as reasonable as anything.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Fix shadow variable in postgres.c

  2. Add -Wshadow=compatible-local to the standard compilation flags

  3. Fix final warnings produced by -Wshadow=compatible-local

  4. Fix final compiler warning produced by -Wshadow=compatible-local

  5. Add optional parameter to PG_TRY() macros

  6. Small refactor to get rid of -Wshadow=compatible-local warning

  7. More -Wshadow=compatible-local warning fixes

  8. Further -Wshadow=compatible-local warning fixes

  9. Further reduce warnings with -Wshadow=compatible-local

  10. Reduce warnings with -Wshadow=compatible-local builds

  11. Remove shadowed local variables that are new in v15