Re: Re: int8/float8/time/timestamp[tz]/float4 passed by value, was Re: Fix HAVE_LONG[_LONG]_INT_64 to really define to 1

Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> Gregory Stark rta:
>> 1) Please don't include configure in your patch. I don't know why it's checked
>> into CVS but it is so that means manually removing it from any patch. It's
>> usually a huge portion of the diff so it's worth removing.

> Noted.

Just for the record: the reason configure is in CVS is to avoid
requiring users of CVS checkouts to have autoconf installed.

Perhaps we should rethink that, but in any case there's no point
in submitting manual diffs to configure (or any other generated
file). Best practice is to just remind the committer that the
generated file needs to be regenerated.

>> 3) You could get rid of a bunch of #ifndef HAVE_LONG_INT_64 snippets by having
>> a #define like INT64PASSBYVALUE which is defined to be either "true" or
>> "false".

> OK, this would also make the patch smaller.
> Is pg_config_manual.h good for this setting?

I'd go for having a #define like that, but what is the reason to set it
in pg_config_manual.h? Seems like the configure script should set it.

regards, tom lane