On 2018-Dec-26, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > > Copying & comparing nodes are updated. Should making, outing and reading
> > > nodes also be updated?
> >
> > TransactionStmt isn't covered by the node serialization functions, so I
> > didn't see anything to update. What did you have in mind?
>
> Sigh. I had in mind that the serialization feature would work with all
> possible nodes, not just some of them… which seems quite naïve. The whole
> make/copy/cmp/in/out functions depress me, all this verbose code should be
> automatically generated from struct declarations. I'm pretty sure there are
> hidden bugs in there.
There may well be, but keep in mind that the nodes that have out and
read support are used in view declarations and such (stored rules); they
are used pretty extensively. Nodes that cannot be part of stored rules
don't need to have read support.
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