| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: tablecmds.c/MergeAttributes() cleanup |
| Date: | 2024-01-12 15:46:50 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa4DTjmPQPrpoVdsJKS-=A-ZYrQge7tp1D+n4WWzKaiwg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:09 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Open-coding stuff like this can easily work out to a loss, and I
> personally think we're overly dependent on List. It's not a
> particularly good abstraction, IMHO, and if we do a lot of work to
> start using it everywhere because a list is really an array, then what
> happens when somebody decides that a list really ought to be a
> skip-list, or a hash table, or some other crazy thing?
This paragraph was a bit garbled. I meant to say that open-coding can
be better than relying on a canned abstraction, but it came out the
other way around.
--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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