Re: patch: tsearch - some memory diet

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think it would be cleaner to get rid of checkTmpCtx() and instead
>> have dispell_init() set up and tear down the temporary context,
>
> What I was thinking of doing was getting rid of the static variable
> altogether: we should do what you say above, but in the form of a
> state struct that's created and destroyed by additional calls from
> dispell_init().  Then that state struct could also carry the
> infrastructure for this additional hack.  It's a little more notation to
> pass an additional parameter through all these routines, but from the
> standpoint of understandability and maintainability it's clearly worth
> it.
>
>> void NISetupForDictionaryLoad();
>> void NICleanupAfterDictionaryLoad();
>
> More like
>
>        NISpellState *NISpellInit();
>        NISpellTerm(NISpellState *stat);
>
>> ...but I don't really see why that has to be done as part of this patch.
>
> Because patches that reduce maintainability seldom get cleaned up after.

I don't think you've made a convincing argument that this patch does
that, but if you're feeling motivated to go clean this up, I'm more
than happy to get out of the way.

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