From: | Kurt Harriman <harriman(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Mostly Harmless: c++reserved - patch 1 of 4 |
Date: | 2008-12-05 09:13:37 |
Message-ID: | 4938F0C1.6050309@acm.org |
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(Re-sending just the first of four patches: c++reserved)
These patches are based on CVS head in which the latest commit was
user: petere
date: Thu Dec 04 17:51:28 2008 +0000
summary: Default values for function arguments
1. c++reserved
User-defined functions and extensions may need to access
backend data structures such as parse trees. A few of the
relevant header files contain field or parameter names
which happen to be C++ reserved words. This makes them
unusable from C++ because the compiler chokes on the
reserved word. It has been suggested that the C++ user
could surround these #includes with #defines to substitute
innocuous words for the reserved words; but that would be
unbearably kludgy, error prone and unmaintainable. A polite
host does not demand such things of a guest.
Fortunately, there are not many instances which are likely
to be encountered by our C++ guests, and these can easily
be changed. In memnodes.h, parsenodes.h, and primnodes.h,
this patch changes the following field names:
typename => typeName
typeid => typeOid
using => usingClause
delete => delete_context
Also, the patch changes a few parameter names in function
prototypes in makefuncs.h, parse_type.h, and builtins.h:
typename => typeName
typeid => typeOid
namespace => qualifier
There's no need to ask PostgreSQL developers to remember to
avoid C++ reserved words, because C++ users who are affected
by such occurrences can be asked to submit a corrective patch.
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