Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition
Date: 2022-10-10 16:37:38
Message-ID: 20221010163738.iyo7w5cfdy7kyxid@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-10-10 18:33:11 +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Oct-10, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > Given the age of affected perl instances I suspect there'll not be a lot of
> > developers affected, and the number of warnings is reasonably small too. It'd
> > likely hurt more developers to not see the warnings locally, given that such
> > shadowing often causes bugs.
>
> Maybe we can install a filter-out in src/pl/plperl's Makefile for the
> time being.

We could, but is it really a useful thing for something fixed 6 years ago?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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