Re: GinPageIs* don't actually return a boolean

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Yury Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: GinPageIs* don't actually return a boolean
Date: 2016-03-11 04:00:42
Message-ID: 20160311040042.dre6pnwln5hwmv2o@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2016-03-11 04:50:45 +0100, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > We need to decide what to do about this. I disagree with Peter: I
> > think that regardless of stdbool, what we've got right now is sloppy
> > coding - bad style if nothing else. Furthermore, I think that while C
> > lets you use any non-zero value to represent true, our bool type is
> > supposed to contain only one of those two values. Therefore, I think
> > we should commit the full patch, back-patch it as far as somebody has
> > the energy for, and move on. But regardless, this patch can't keep
> > sitting in the CommitFest - we either have to take it or reject it,
> > and soon.

I plan to commit something like this, unless there's very loud protest
from Peter's side.

> +1, I would suggest to move ahead, !! is not really Postgres-like anyway.

The !! bit is a minor sideshow to this, afaics. It just came up when
discussing the specifics of the fixed macros and some people expressed a
clear preference for not using !!, so I fixed the occurrances I
introduced.

Andres

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