From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: linked list rewrite |
Date: | 2004-04-29 04:31:22 |
Message-ID: | 200404290431.i3T4VMQ25722@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On 28-Apr-04, at 12:12 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I never liked "cell" myself. It is too vague to me. But I see your
> > point that list_head you would think returns the head of the list, not
> > the first element in the list.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean: list_head() returns the "head of the list",
> which is the first cell in the list. That cell contains a data value
> and a pointer to the next cell in the list. Makes sense to me...
Oh, I thought cell returned the first data value, not the
first-data-and-pointer-to-next-one. Yes, list_head and list_tail seems
fine. Why mix "cell" in there? I don't know what a cell is.
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