On 14.09.26 09:08, Michael Paquier wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 08:41:59AM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I'm not sure I understand why we care that we hardcode that Oid8 is the
same as uint64. It's never been a problem that Oid is the same as uin32 ...
For me, the reason is greppability of oid8 information as the
variables printed in the strings may not refer to variables declared
in the code.
I don't understand what this means. Do you mean you want to grep for
where an oid8 value is being printed? I mean, that just won't work. We
don't accommodate that in the code for anything else in place of "oid8".
I think the symbol OID8_FORMAT should be purged from the code. Its
presence is just going to cause confusion, with people using it in
incorrect ways, and inviting more XXX_FORMAT symbols to be added. We
have just been working on getting rid of these after all.
