Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Sigh ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> This doesn't look quite right; unless the arithmetic is being done in
>>> floating point? I had it like this in configure.in:
>>>
>>> RELSEG_SIZE=`expr '(' 1024 '*' ${segsize} / ${blocksize} ')' '*' 1024`
>>>
>
>
>> blocksize is one of (1,2,4,8,16,32) so it should always be a factor of
>> 1024 unless my arithmetic is awry. I did it that way because I dislike
>> expressions with unbracketed mixed operations - they make me think too
>> much.
>>
>
> Well, if you dislike the original on style grounds, you should change it
> to match. Doing the same thing in two different ways in two places
> isn't good.
>

OK, done. Patch applied with that addition (it was time I deployed
autoconf 2.61 anyway).

cheers

andrew