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Re: remove bits* types

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-21T05:41:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm content with the status quo personally, but perhaps it'd be
> worth adding some info to the comment for the bitsNN typedefs
> to make it clearer what they are intended for.  I'm imagining
> something along the lines of

Not sure why we absolutely need to be aggressive with a removal here,
so I'm +/-0 on that.  And there is always the argument of breaking the
compilation of out-of-core code.  That would be easily fixable, still
always slightly annoying.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Remove bits* typedefs.