Re: pgsql: Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.
Date: 2014-03-23 14:10:44
Message-ID: 532EEB64.40408@dunslane.net
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On 03/23/2014 09:22 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> Here's the code from gin.h (after fixing the issues Andres and Tom
> pointed out):
>
>> enum GinLogicValueEnum
>> {
>> GIN_FALSE = 0, /* item is not present / does
>> not match */
>> GIN_TRUE = 1, /* item is present / matches */
>> GIN_MAYBE = 2 /* don't know if item is
>> present / don't know if
>> * matches */
>> };
>>
>> typedef char GinLogicValue;
>
> The reason for the typedef is precisely that an enum is not guaranteed
> to be one byte. Tom suggested getting rid of the typedef, but it's
> needed to make sure it's stored as one byte.
>
> I'll go add a comment to it, explaining why it's needed.
>
>

Ak, OK, I probably misread your previous email.

cheers

andrew

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