Re: XLByte* usage

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-12-18T12:14:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> In 2) unfortunately one has to make decision in which way to simplify
> negated XLByte(LT|LE) expressions. I tried to make that choice very
> careful and when over every change several times after that, so I hope
> there aren't any bad changes, but more eyeballs are needed.

+	if (lsn > PageGetLSN(page))
+	if (lsn >= PageGetLSN(page))
+	if (lsn <= PageGetLSN(page))
+			if (max_lsn < this_lsn)

My only comment here would be that I would like it much better that the
code always use the same operators, and as we read from left to right,
that we pick < and <=.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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