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Re: post-freeze damage control

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-09T20:37:31Z
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  1. revert: Transform OR clauses to ANY expression

  2. Fix incorrect calculation in BlockRefTableEntryGetBlocks.

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 5:12 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> * OrClauseGroupKey is not a Node type, so why does it have
>> a NodeTag?  I wonder what value will appear in that field,
>> and what will happen if the struct is passed to any code
>> that expects real Nodes.

> I used that to put both not-subject-of-transform nodes together with
> hash entries into the same list.  This is used to save the order of
> clauses.  I think this is an important property, and I have already
> expressed it in [1].

What exactly is the point of having a NodeTag in the struct though?
If you don't need it to be a valid Node, that seems pointless and
confusing.  We certainly have plenty of other lists that contain
plain structs without tags, so I don't buy that the List
infrastructure is making you do that.

			regards, tom lane