Re: Small improvements to pg_list.h's linitial(), lsecond(), lthird() etc macros - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Small improvements to pg_list.h's linitial(), lsecond(), lthird() etc macros
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Msg-id 571562.1601339872@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Small improvements to pg_list.h's linitial(), lsecond(), lthird() etc macros  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, I understand that part.  The pain I was talking about was
> writing a patch for master, trying to apply it to the previous version
> only to find it does not apply. After fixing it up for that version
> trying to apply that patch to the version before that and getting more
> conflicts. Repeating that down to our earliest supported version is
> something I'd really love to never have to do again.

Tell me about it :-(.  I've spent countless hours on that sort
of activity.  So I really dislike changing an API and then changing
it again in the next release.

            regards, tom lane



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