Re: Yet another small patch - reorderbuffer.c:1099

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Yet another small patch - reorderbuffer.c:1099
Date: 2016-09-05 00:52:36
Message-ID: 24716.1473036756@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-04-05 11:38:27 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> The current arrangement looks bizantine to me, for no reason. If we
>> think that one of the two branches might do something additional to the
>> list deletion, surely that will be in a separate stanza with its own
>> comment; and if we ever want to remove the list deletion from one of the
>> two cases (something that strikes me as unlikely) then we will need to
>> fix the comment, too.

> You realize it's two different lists they're deleted in the different
> branches?

I looked at this and can see some of the argument on both sides, but
if it's setting off static-analyzer warnings for some people, that
seems like a sufficient reason to change it. We certainly make more
significant changes than this in order to silence warnings.

I rewrote the comment a bit more and pushed it.

regards, tom lane

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