| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_archivecleanup bug |
| Date: | 2014-03-18 19:13:28 |
| Message-ID: | 53289AD8.4060204@vmware.com |
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On 03/18/2014 09:04 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 18 March 2014 18:55, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> That said, I don't find comma expression to be particularly "not
>> simple".
>
> Maybe, but we've not used it before anywhere in Postgres, so I don't
> see a reason to start now. Especially since C is not the native
> language of many people these days and people just won't understand
> it.
Agreed. The psqlODBC code is littered with comma expressions, and the
first time I saw it, it took me a really long time to figure out what
"if (foo = malloc(...), foo) { } " meant. And I consider myself quite
experienced with C.
- Heikki
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