Re: Typo in pg_db_role_setting.h

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>

From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
To: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-02T03:06:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 10:42 PM Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 at 22:16, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >> You are correct, but I wonder if it'd be better to just drop the comment
> >> entirely. I checked a couple other random headers with function
> >> declarations and they didn't have such a comment, and it's kind of
> obvious
> >> what they're for.
> >
> > Some places have these, some don't.  It's probably more useful where
> > a header foo.h is declaring functions that aren't in the obviously
> > corresponding foo.c file, or live in multiple files.  In this case
> > I agree it's not adding much.
> >
>
> Attached patch to remove this comment.  Please take a look.


I'm not sure that we should remove such comments. And a rough search
shows that there are much more places with this kind of comments, such
as below:

nbtxlog transam readfuncs walreceiver buffile bufmgr fd latch pmsignal
procsignal sinvaladt logtape rangetypes

Thanks
Richard

Commits

  1. Fix comment in pg_db_role_setting.h