On 2013-11-19 16:37:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:34:59PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > > On 2013-11-19 10:30:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > I don't have an informed opinion about requiring inline support > > > > (although it would surely be nice). > > > > > > inline is C99, and we've generally resisted requiring C99 features. > > > Maybe it's time to move that goalpost, and maybe not. > > > > But it's a part of C99 that was very widely implemented before, so even > > if we don't want to rely on C99 in its entirety, relying on inline > > support is realistic. > > > > I think, independent from atomics, the readability & maintainability win > > by relying on inline functions instead of long macros, potentially with > > multiple eval hazards, or contortions like ILIST_INCLUDE_DEFINITIONS is > > significant. > > Oh, man, my fastgetattr() macro is going to be simplified. All my good > work gets rewritten. ;-)
That and HeapKeyTest() alone are sufficient reason for this ;) Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
