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Re: linked list rewrite

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

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From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-28T23:22:10Z
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On 28-Apr-04, at 12:12 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I never liked "cell" myself.  It is too vague to me.  But I see your
> point that list_head you would think returns the head of the list, not
> the first element in the list.

I'm not sure what you mean: list_head() returns the "head of the list", 
which is the first cell in the list. That cell contains a data value 
and a pointer to the next cell in the list. Makes sense to me...

-Neil