Re: POC: converting Lists into arrays

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 12:54, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Yes, I think you have a point that progress here would be good and that
> it's worth some pain. But the names will make even less sense if we just
> shunt in an array based approach under the already obscure list
> API.

If we feel strongly about fixing that then probably it would be as
simple as renaming the functions and adding some macros with the old
names and insisting that all new or changed code use the functions and
not the macro wrappers. That could be followed up by a final sweep in
N years time when the numbers have dwindled to a low enough level. All
that code mustn't be getting modified anyway, so not much chance
backpatching pain.

I see length() finally died in a similar way in Tom's patch. Perhaps
doing this would have people consider lcons more carefully before they
use it over lappend.

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