Re: Patch to improve a few appendStringInfo* calls

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch to improve a few appendStringInfo* calls
Date: 2015-07-02 13:45:09
Message-ID: 20150702134509.GK3289@postgresql.org
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David Rowley wrote:
> On 2 July 2015 at 21:59, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>
> > I left out the changes like
> >
> > - appendStringInfoString(&collist, buf.data);
> >> + appendBinaryStringInfo(&collist, buf.data, buf.len);
> >>
> >
> > because they're not an improvement in readablity, IMHO, and they were not
> > in performance-critical paths.
> >
> Perhaps we can come up with appendStringInfoStringInfo at some later date.

I had this exact thought when I saw your patch (though it was
appendStringInfoSI to me because the other name is too long and a bit
confusing). It seems straightforward enough ...

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