Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 09:33:54 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> * There are way too many #ifdef VERBOSE_DEBUG stuff for my taste. It
>> might look better if you had macros such as elog_debug() that are defined
>> to empty if VERBOSE_DEBUG is not defined. (The problem with such an
>> approach is that you have to get into the business of creating one macro
>> for each different param count, so elog_debug1(), elog_debug2() and so
>> on. It also means you have to count the number of args in each call to
>> ensure you're calling the right one.)
> Hm. I am generally not very happy with the logging as is. I don't want to rely
> on elog() at all because that means the code suddently depends on just about
> the whole backend which sucks (see my god ulgy makefile hack for that...).
elog/ereport are already basically macros. Can't they be redefined for
use in a standalone program, with just minimal backing code?
> If we were to use that approach is there a platform that stops us from using
> vararg macros? I *think* it is C99...
C90 is still the project standard, and this is a pretty lame reason to
want to change it.
>> * In the code beautification front, there are a number of cuddled braces
>> and improperly indented function declarations.
> I never seem to get those right. I really tried to make a pass over the whole
> file correcting them...
Install pgindent?
regards, tom lane
