Re: BRIN indexes - TRAP: BadArgument

Tom Lane wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm having problems getting this to compile on MSVC. Attached is a patch
> > which fixes the problem.
>
> The committed code is completely broken on compilers that don't accept
> varargs macros, and this patch will not make them happier.

I tried to make it fire only on GCC, which is known to support variadic
macros, but I evidently failed.

> Probably what needs to happen is to put extra parentheses into the call
> sites, along the lines of
>
> #ifdef BRIN_DEBUG
> #define BRIN_elog(args) elog args
> #else
> #define BRIN_elog(args) ((void) 0)
> #endif
>
>
> BRIN_elog((LOG, "fmt", ...));

That works for me, thanks for the suggestion.

> Or we could decide we don't need this debugging crud anymore and just
> nuke it all.

I'm removing one which seems pointless, but keeping the others for now.
We can always remove them later. (I also left BRIN_DEBUG turned on by
default; I'm turning it off.)

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