Re: [CFReview] Red-Black Tree
Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-09T16:56:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera >> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: >>> It seems a bit strange to have all the rb_free_recursive support and not >>> use it anywhere ... and a freefunc callback even, whose only caller >>> seems to set as null currently. ═Hmm, even in the knngist patch the >>> rb_freefunc stuff is unused. > >> I don't think it's inappropriate; it doesn't seem implausible that >> someone might want to free an rbtree someday. I suppose we could >> comment it out but I guess I don't see the point. > > I think the suggestion was to *remove* it not comment it out. I'm > skeptical of carrying dead code. If the functionality is not used > in the proposed gist patches then it's very fair to question whether > it ever will be used. ok, it's not a big deal to remove code. I think it's time to submit rbtree. > > regards, tom lane > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83