Re: remove bits* types

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove bits* types
Date: 2026-03-18 22:18:06
Message-ID: 202603182215.rvi6x75ekyba@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2026-Mar-18, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> Well, in the process of seeing how bad the patch would look, I ended up
> writing it. I used sed for most of this, and I tried to make all necessary
> manual adjustments, but I may have missed a couple.

Shrug. As I said in the other thread, it seems mildly useful to
distinguish the cases where stuff is there solely to be treated as a
mask of independent bits instead of something you do arithmetic with.
But if nobody else likes this, I won't stand in your way.

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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"No tengo por qué estar de acuerdo con lo que pienso"
(Carlos Caszeli)

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