Re: Small xlog.c cleanup

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> > He's moved the "static globals" from around line 286 of
> > src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:
> > to be static locals inside of function ReadRecord around line 1216 in the
> > same file:
>
> This is not usual coding practice in Postgres, so far as I've noticed.
>
> I prefer to avoid static locals because the fact that they *are*
> static is easily missed.  In particular it's way too easy to misread
> the initialization as something that happens on every entry to the
> function, rather than only once.  So my opinion is that this change is
> bad style.

Fair enough.  I just found it even more confusing that they were
defined almost 1KLOC from their only use.

But functions of 300LOC tend to fail my taste guidelines too, so
perhaps I should leave well alone :)

Matthew.