On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 01:27:15AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've occasionally wondered about having exactly two physical List
> implementations, one for 32-bit payloads and one for 64-bit payloads, and
> then putting a trivial macros-or-static-inlines layer in front of that
> that uses casts to supply variants for pointers, signed ints, unsigned
> ints, etc etc. There hasn't yet been enough reason to pursue doing it
> though.
FWIW, moving pg_list.h & co to have just two list implementations, based
on say bits32 and a new bits64 is something I was thinking about while
reading this thread.
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Michael
