Re: remove bits* types

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove bits* types
Date: 2026-03-21 05:41:29
Message-ID: ab4viZLJvjsG_uIa@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm content with the status quo personally, but perhaps it'd be
> worth adding some info to the comment for the bitsNN typedefs
> to make it clearer what they are intended for. I'm imagining
> something along the lines of

Not sure why we absolutely need to be aggressive with a removal here,
so I'm +/-0 on that. And there is always the argument of breaking the
compilation of out-of-core code. That would be easily fixable, still
always slightly annoying.
--
Michael

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