Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 06:40:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> That leaves the uses in rowtypes.c.  Those were introduced as a
>> portability fix by commit 4cbb646334b.  I'm curious why these are
>> necessary.  The Datums they operate come from heap_deform_tuple(), which
>> gets them from fetchatt(), which does run all pass-by-value values
>> through the very same GET_X_BYTES() macros (until now).  I don't see
>> where those dirty upper bits would be coming from.
>
> I don't see it either.  I think the actually useful parts of that patch
> were to declare record_image_cmp's result correctly as int rather than
> bool, and to cope with varlena fields of unequal size.  Unfortunately
> there seems to be no contemporaneous mailing list discussion, so
> it's not clear what Kevin based this change on.

This was a hotfix after a buildfarm breakage, the base commit being
f566515.

> Want to try reverting the GET_X_BYTES() parts of it and see if the
> buildfarm complains?

So, Peter, are you planning to do so?

> Note if that if we simplify the GetDatum macros, it's possible that
> record_image_cmp would change behavior, since it might now see signed not
> unsigned values depending on whether the casts do sign extension or not.
> Not sure if that'd be a problem.

Based on the patch series in
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d86ec1f4-941c-e702-b05a-748ea2e59e9c@2ndquadrant.com,
the next thing that could be shipped is 0003 in my opinion, as 0002 has
already been pushed.
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Michael