Re: Header and comments describing routines in incorrect shape in visibilitymap.c

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Header and comments describing routines in incorrect shape in visibilitymap.c
Date: 2016-07-07 07:48:00
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQO0AaCwhKsyTChxu8h9-KE0_H6qMaWrg4t9aDhq0yyhw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> So, the 'pinned' is not necessary here or should be added also to
> _clear. I think the former is preferable since it is already
> written in the comments for the functions and seems to be a bit
> too detailed to be put here.
>
> - * visibilitymap_set - set a bit in a previously pinned page
> + * visibilitymap_set - set bits in the visibility map

As far as I know, it is possible to set one or two bits, so I would
think that using parenthesis makes more sense. Same when pinning a
page, the caller may want to just set one of the two bits available.
That's the choice I am trying to outline here.
--
Michael

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