| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: automatically generating node support functions | 
| Date: | 2022-07-12 19:49:11 | 
| Message-ID: | 1739895.1657655351@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 11.07.22 19:57, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So at this point I'm rather attracted to the idea of reverting to
>> a manually-maintained NodeTag enum.  We know how to avoid ABI
>> breakage with that, and it's not exactly the most painful part
>> of adding a new node type.
> One of the nicer features is that you now get to see the numbers 
> assigned to the enum tags, like
>      T_LockingClause = 91,
>      T_XmlSerialize = 92,
>      T_PartitionElem = 93,
> so that when you get an error like "unsupported node type: %d", you can 
> just look up what it is.
Yeah, I wasn't thrilled about reverting that either.  I think the
defenses I installed in eea9fa9b2 should be sufficient to deal
with the risk.
regards, tom lane
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