On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > Add assert checking to pg_leftmost_one_pos32() and friends
>
> I can see that this was worth writing for testing purposes, but
> is it really worth carrying permanently? Even in a debug build,
> the ratio of cycles expended to chances of finding a problem seems
> mighty poor, and you've done a lot of damage to the readability
> of these functions too.
That's a fair point, and it's doubtful we'll need to add another platform
anytime soon. I'll work on removing the asserts.
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John Naylor
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