Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node?
Date: 2021-01-30 16:34:41
Message-ID: 2883462.1612024481@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Pointer width is interesting, but really it's a solved problem
>> compared to these.

> What about USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL?

That's an annoyance, sure, but I don't recall many recent bugs
related to violations of that coding rule. As long as you don't
violate the Datum abstraction it's pretty safe.

regards, tom lane

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