Re: printTable API (was: Show INHERIT in \du)

From: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: printTable API (was: Show INHERIT in \du)
Date: 2008-04-16 23:37:33
Message-ID: 37ed240d0804161637oe40e448je072e7984f32aff2@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Brendan Jurd escribió:
>
> > The second version of the patch is attached.
>
> Thanks. I looked the patch over and did some minor changes. Modified
> version attached.
>

Cool, I had a look through your changes and they all seemed fine to
me. In particular, moving the header comments to the ... header ...
file seemed like a smart move. =)

> One thing I'm not entirely happy about is the fact that we need a
> pointer to the last footer/cell/header, so two pointers for each element
> kind.
>

Well, the alternative is iterating through the array each time you
want to add something until you hit a NULL pointer, and adding the new
item at that point. Considering we're only chewing up an extra 4 *
sizeof(pointer) = 16 bytes in the struct, it seems like a reasonable
price to pay for the convenience.

What is it about the extra fields that makes you unhappy?

Cheers,
BJ
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