Re: assorted code cleanup

On 8/21/17 01:11, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> - Drop excessive dereferencing of function pointers
> 
> -           (*next_ProcessUtility_hook) (pstmt, queryString,
> +           next_ProcessUtility_hook(pstmt, queryString,
>                                          context, params, queryEnv,
>                                          dest, completionTag);
> But this... Personally I like the current grammar which allows one to
> make the difference between a function call with something declared
> locally and something that may be going to a custom code path. So I
> think that you had better not update the system hooks that external
> modules can use via shared_preload_libraries.

Do you mean specifically the hook variables, or any function pointers?
I can see your point in the above case, but for example here

-       if ((*tinfo->f_lt) (o.upper, c.upper, flinfo))
+       if (tinfo->f_lt(o.upper, c.upper, flinfo))

I think there is no loss of clarity and the extra punctuation makes it
more complicated to read.

>> - Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements
> 
> So you would still keep parenthesis like here for simple expressions:
> contrib/bloom/blutils.c:    return (x - 1);
> No objections.
> 
> Here are some more:
> contrib/intarray/_int_bool.c:       return (calcnot) ?
> contrib/ltree/ltxtquery_op.c:       return (calcnot) ?
> 
> And there are many "(0)" "S_ANYTHING" in src/interfaces/ecpg/test/ and
> src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/.

Thanks, I included these.

>> - Remove our own definition of NULL
> 
> Fine. c.h uses once NULL before enforcing its definition.

Actually, that would have worked fine, because the earlier use is a
macro definition, so NULL would not have been needed until it is used.

>> - fuzzystrmatch: Remove dead code
> 
> Those are remnants of a323ede, which missed to removed everything.

Good reference, makes sense.

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