Re: [HACKERS] many copies of atooid() and oid_cmp()

On 1/12/17 12:25 AM, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> There are approximately 11 copies of atooid() and 3 of oid_cmp() or
>> equivalent, and pending patches are proposing to add more.  I propose
>> these two patches to collect them in central places.
>>
> I've verified that the patch covers all the copies of atooid() and
> oid_cmp() that should be replaced. However, as Tom suggested, I've
> looked into pg_dump and found that there is a oidcmp() as well. It may
> have been missed because it has a different name.
> 
> I was wondering whether it is worth to replace the following as well:
> (TransactionId)strtoul(str, NULL, 16) to something like #define atotranid().

There is a atoxid(), which is actually not used and removed by my patch.There are a few other calls of this pattern,
butthey are not frequent
 
or consistent enough to worry about (yet), I think.

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