Re: Consistently use the XLogRecPtrIsInvalid() macro

On 18.11.25 10:06, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:03:03PM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
>> I'm currently working on the RegProcedureIsValid() and OidIsValid() cases,
>> will share once done.
>
> here they are, I'm not creating a new thread for those as this is the same
> kind of ideas (but for other types) but can create a dedicated one if you prefer.

I don't like this change.

RegProcedureIsValid() doesn't add any value over OidIsValid, and we
don't have any RegXXXIsValid() for any of the other regxxx types. So if
we were to do anything about this, I would just remove it.

For OidIsValid etc., I don't think this improves the notation. It is
well understood that InvalidOid is 0. I mean, some people like writing
if (!foo) and some like writing if (foo == NULL), but we're not going to
legislate one over the other. But we're certainly not going to
introduce, uh, if (PointerIsValid(foo)), and in fact we just removed
that! What you're proposing here seem quite analogous but in the
opposite direction.