Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition

On 2022-Oct-05, David Rowley wrote:

> The only warning remaining after applying the attached is the "now"
> warning in pgbench.c:7509. I'd considered changing this to "thenow"
> which translates to "right now" in the part of Scotland that I'm from.
> I also considered "nownow", which is used in South Africa [1].
> Anyway, I'm not really being serious, but I didn't come up with
> anything better than "now2". It's just I didn't like that as it sort
> of implies there are multiple definitions of "now" and I struggle with
> that... maybe I'm just thinking too much in terms of Newtonian
> Relativity...

:-D

A simpler idea might be to just remove the inner declaration, and have
that block set the outer var. There's no damage, since the block is
going to end and not access the previous value anymore.

diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index aa1a3541fe..91a067859b 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -7506,7 +7506,7 @@ threadRun(void *arg)
/* progress report is made by thread 0 for all threads */
if (progress && thread->tid == 0)
{
- pg_time_usec_t now = pg_time_now();
+ now = pg_time_now(); /* not lazy; clobbers outer value */

if (now >= next_report)
{

The "now now" reference reminded me of "ahorita"
https://doorwaytomexico.com/paulina/ahorita-meaning-examples/
which is source of misunderstandings across borders in South America ...

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