Re: use new List API names

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: use new List API names
Date: 2004-05-30 21:31:55
Message-ID: 27456.1085952715@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I thought llast() and length() were going away too?

> For llast(), I decided to keep it around: it is nicely symmetric
> with linitial(), and it makes any code that actually needs the last
> value in a list significantly more readable. Since it's a macro
> there's no runtime cost.

> I had thought about keeping length() around, but on second thought I
> don't see why we ought to. I'll replace it with list_length() and
> post an updated patch.

Okay, that works for me.

regards, tom lane

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