Re: GinPageIs* don't actually return a boolean

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2016-02-11 18:45:30
Message-ID: 23820.1455216330@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-02-11 13:37:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Absolutely; they don't work safely for testing bits that aren't in the
>> rightmost byte of a flag word, for instance. I'm on board with making
>> these fixes, I'm just unconvinced that stdbool is a good reason for it.

> Oh, ok. Interactions with stdbool was what made me looking into this,
> that's primarily why I mentioned it. What's your thinking about
> back-patching, independent of that then?

Well, Yury was saying upthread that some MSVC versions have a problem
with the existing coding, which would be a reason to back-patch ...
but I'd like to see a failing buildfarm member first. Don't particularly
want to promise to support compilers not represented in the farm.

regards, tom lane

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