Re: Add Boolean node

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add Boolean node
Date: 2021-12-30 08:58:10
Message-ID: 7acfb9f8-05a8-3cfd-21c6-fdd4cb5d1924@enterprisedb.com
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On 29.12.21 21:32, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2021-12-27 09:53:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Didn't really read the patch in any detail, but I did have one idea:
>> I think that the different things-that-used-to-be-Value-nodes ought to
>> use different field names, say ival, rval, bval, sval not just "val".
>> That makes it more likely that you'd catch any code that is doing the
>> wrong thing and not going through one of the access macros.
>
> If we go around changing all these places, it might be worth to also change
> Integer to be a int64 instead of an int.

I was actually looking into that, when I realized that most uses of
Integer were actually Booleans. Hence the current patch to clear those
fake Integers out of the way. I haven't gotten to analyze the int64
question any further, but it should be easier hereafter.

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