Bruce Momjian escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 08:59:42AM -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:12:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > If we had not made massive cleanup changes years ago, our code would not
> > > be as good as it is today. By avoiding cleanup to reduce the burden on
> > > people who use our code, we are positioning our code on a slow decline
> > > in clarity.
> > >
> > > What I don't want to do is get into a mode where every code cleanup has
> > > to be verified that it isn't going to excessively burden outside code
> > > users. Cleanup is hard enough, and adding another check to that process
> > > makes cleanup even less likely.
> >
> > I don't disagree with that, but I would describe the proposal as a mild
> > dirty-up for the sake of build performance, not a cleanup.
>
> OK, good enough. Thanks for the feedback.
Agreed. I will keep this patch in my local repo; I might present it
again later as part of more invasive surgery.
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