| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: remove some STATUS_* symbols |
| Date: | 2020-01-16 12:56:38 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmobAKj_skqbmeTcG7kXT5hXF1MkCofu5kqrhAm=3ohVh9A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:50 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> Thanks, that looks fine. I am still not sure whether the second patch
> adding an enum via ProcWaitStatus improves the code readability
> though, so my take would be to discard it for now. Perhaps others
> think differently, I don't know.
IMHO, custom enums for each particular case would be a big improvement
over supposedly-generic STATUS codes. It makes it clearer which values
are possible in each code path, and it comes out nicer in the
debugger, too.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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