Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:52:55PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/26/17 23:10, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > It would be nice to do something like that for GinTernaryValue in
> > tsginidx.c by mapping directly to GIN_FALSE and GIN_TRUE depending on
> > the input coming in gin_tsquery_consistent. The fix is more trivial
> > there.
>
> For GinTernaryValue, I think it's easier to just make it the same size
> as bool, since it doesn't go onto disk. My earlier patch did that. I'm
> not sure it's worth adding more code to copy the array around.

But on prairiedog the sizeof bool and char are different, so compilation
would fail, no? checkcondition_gin is used only by
gin_tsquery_consistent so I think that it is possible to get advantage
of that by using a secondary type of GinChkVal which uses directly a
bool array and converts the check value for the operand to a
GinTernaryValue value on-the-fly. I agree that this would make the code
more complex though for not much gain on modern platform.
--
Michael