Re: Remove all "INTERFACE ROUTINES" style comments

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove all "INTERFACE ROUTINES" style comments
Date: 2019-01-11 03:42:36
Message-ID: 7200.1547178156@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:58 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> A number of postgres files have sections like heapam's
>> * INTERFACE ROUTINES
>>
>> They're often out-of-date, and I personally never found them to be
>> useful. A few people, including yours truly, have been removing a few
>> here and there when overhauling a subsystem to avoid having to update
>> and then adjust them.
>> I think it might be a good idea to just do that for all at once.

> +1

I agree we don't maintain them well, so it'd be better to remove them,
as long as we make sure any useful info gets transferred someplace else
(like per-function header comments).

regards, tom lane

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