Re: automatically generating node support functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: automatically generating node support functions
Date: 2022-07-06 10:30:49
Message-ID: d200d6b0-0fde-d02e-b547-d00211acf8df@enterprisedb.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 06.07.22 02:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> It might be enough to invent a struct-level attribute allowing
> manual assignment of node tags, ie
>
> typedef struct MyNewNode pg_node_attr(nodetag=466)
>
> where it'd be the programmer's responsibility to pick a nonconflicting
> tag number. We'd only ever use that in ABI-frozen branches, so
> manual assignment of the tag value should be workable.

Yes, I'm aware of this issue, and that was also more or less my idea.

(Well, before the introduction of per-struct attributes, I was thinking
about parsing nodes.h to see if the tag is listed explicitly. But this
is probably better.)

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Dilip Kumar 2022-07-06 10:40:10 Re: [PATCH] Reuse Workers and Replication Slots during Logical Replication
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2022-07-06 10:28:31 Re: automatically generating node support functions