Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node?
Date
Msg-id 2883462.1612024481@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Should we make Bitmapsets a kind of Node?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Pointer width is interesting, but really it's a solved problem
>> compared to these.

> What about USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL?

That's an annoyance, sure, but I don't recall many recent bugs
related to violations of that coding rule.  As long as you don't
violate the Datum abstraction it's pretty safe.

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Kincaid
Date:
Subject: Re: Key management with tests
Next
From: Michail Nikolaev
Date:
Subject: Re: Thoughts on "killed tuples" index hint bits support on standby