Re: Remove all "INTERFACE ROUTINES" style comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Remove all "INTERFACE ROUTINES" style comments
Date
Msg-id 7200.1547178156@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Remove all "INTERFACE ROUTINES" style comments  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:58 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> A number of postgres files have sections like heapam's
>> * INTERFACE ROUTINES
>> 
>> They're often out-of-date, and I personally never found them to be
>> useful. A few people, including yours truly, have been removing a few
>> here and there when overhauling a subsystem to avoid having to update
>> and then adjust them.
>> I think it might be a good idea to just do that for all at once.

> +1

I agree we don't maintain them well, so it'd be better to remove them,
as long as we make sure any useful info gets transferred someplace else
(like per-function header comments).

            regards, tom lane


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