Re: backend/nodes cleanup: Move loop variables definitions into for statement

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-19T09:36:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 12.11.25 09:00, Chao Li wrote:
> While working on the other patch [1] that touched tbm_add_tuples() under 
> src/backend/nodes, I moved a loop variable into for statement by the way 
> as I knew Peter Eisentraut had done some efforts about that, see [2].
> 
> However, Peter removed that change from the patch and he said that 
> should belong to a separate cleanup patch. So I am following up and 
> moving loop variables into for statements wherever possible under src/ 
> backend/nodes.

In a couple of cases, you are changing the type of the loop variable 
from Size to int.  I would not expect such a change in a patch of this 
nature.  If you have a reason to change it, please explain it (but I 
doubt the change is correct).




Commits

  1. backend/nodes cleanup: Move loop variables definitions into for statement

  2. formatting.c cleanup: Move loop variables definitions into for statement