Re: Portal->commandTag as an enum

From: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Portal->commandTag as an enum
Date: 2020-02-11 21:05:12
Message-ID: C1EF53B4-BE38-4D7F-8DF8-4363876415AF@enterprisedb.com
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> On Feb 11, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-Feb-11, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>>> No thanks.
>>
>> I’m not sure which option you are voting for:
>>
>> (Option #1) Have the perl script generate the .c and .h file from a .dat file
>>
>> (Option #2) Have the perl script validate but not generate the .c and .h files
>>
>> (Option #3) Have no perl script, with all burden on the programmer to get the .c and .h files right by hand.
>>
>> I think you’re voting against #3, and I’m guessing you’re voting for #1, but I’m not certain.
>
> I was voting against #2 (burden the programmer with consistency checks
> that must be fixed by hand, without actually doing the programmatically-
> doable work), but I don't like #3 either. I do like #1.

Option #1 works for me. If I don’t see any contrary votes before I get back to this patch, I’ll implement it that way for the next version.


Mark Dilger
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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