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From Melanie Plageman
Subject Re: remove bits* types
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In response to Re: remove bits* types  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 05:27:34PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I'm mildly in favor of removing them.  But it appears there is no consensus.
>
> Same here.  While it still doesn't look like anybody is totally opposed to
> the idea, you are right that there is no consensus.

I really wish we would remove them. I want fewer confusing typedefs in
the code -- not more. I'm quite sad that as of 1bd6f22f43ac1b we are
now using them more widely (and publicly), and I feel that was done
without consensus. It should just use a regular uint32 -- like other
places we do this (e.g. scan_begin() amongst many others).

- Melanie

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