On 2019-Sep-13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not a new problem of this patch, exactly, but:
>
> /* Reindex options */
> #define REINDEXOPT_VERBOSE 1 << 0 /* print progress info */
> +#define REINDEXOPT_REPORT_PROGRESS 1 << 1 /* report pgstat progress */
>
> Surely these macro definitions are incredibly dangerous due to their
> lack of parentheses.
>
> I'd initially thought that we already had bugs in existing usages like
>
> if (options & REINDEXOPT_VERBOSE)
>
> After consulting a nearby C reference I see that we're accidentally
> saved by << having higher priority than &, but this is not safely-
> maintainable code. Expressions like "~REINDEXOPT_VERBOSE" would not
> do what one expects.
Fixed back to 9.5, where this macro appeared. I was unable to come up
with a way to search for other occurrences of the same problem :-(
Thanks,
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