Re: Consistently use the XLogRecPtrIsInvalid() macro

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang(at)yeah(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Consistently use the XLogRecPtrIsInvalid() macro
Date: 2025-12-02 14:35:48
Message-ID: aS75RIAQhAiWBHH0@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 08:44:28AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 01.12.25 08:14, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Agree. Out of curiosity, I searched for pointers and literal zero comparisons
> > or assignments (with [1]) and found 6 of them.
> >
> > While literal zero is technically correct, NULL is the semantically appropriate
> > choice for pointers.
> >
> > PFA a patch to fix those 6.
>
> committed (required pgindent)

Thanks!

Doh, I always run pgindent unless when I think the changes could not break the
indentation.

Note to self: always run pgindent, no thinking required ;-)

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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