Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of mar ene 03 17:57:56 -0300 2012:
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
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> > If there are many call sites, maybe it'd be a good idea to use a
> > semantic patcher tool such as Coccinelle instead of doing it one by one.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, regrettably I've already made those changes.
>
> After examining the call sites, I identified 35 that might need
> changing. Of those, about 30 were changed to use systable_beginscan,
> while a few others use declared snapshots instead. So not a great
> effort and worth doing the by-hand inspection.
Yeah, for 35 changes I wouldn't have gone all the length required to
learn the new tool either. If they had been 200, OTOH ...
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