I noticed an editing error in the patch I originally submitted; it defined the same debugging macro twice.
I've attached a fresh copy of the patch against the current HEAD with
the fix included.
Cheers,
BJ
On 8/11/07, Brendan Jurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As discussed on -hackers, I've done some refactoring work on
> backend/utils/adt/formatting.c, in an attempt to make the code a bit
> more intelligible before improving handling of bogus formats.
>
> This is purely a refactor. The functionality of the file hasn't
> changed; it does the same job as before, but it does it in ~200 fewer
> lines and ~3.5k fewer characters. The clarity of code is greatly
> improved. Sadly, performance appears to be unchanged.
>
> Summary of changes:
>
> * Did away with dch_global, dch_date and dch_time.
> * Replaced DCH_processor with two new functions DCH_to_char and
> DCH_from_char, which now do all the work previously done by
> dch_{global,date,time}.
> * Removed the 'action' field from the KeyWord struct as it is no longer
> useful.
> * Changed the type of the 'character' field in the FormatNode struct
> to char, because ... that's what it is. The original choice of 'int'
> seems to have been an error.
> * Removed commented-out function declaration for is_acdc. According
> to CVS annotate, this hasn't been in use since sometime in the early
> Cretaceous period, and in any case I don't know why you'd want to
> check whether a string was the rock band AC/DC. =)
> * Reworded some of the comments for clarity.
> * Didn't touch any of the number formatting routines.
>
> This compiles cleanly on x86 gentoo and passes check, installcheck and
> installcheck-parallel.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> BJ
>
>
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