On 2024/2/20 23:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@yeah.net> writes:
>> The Query structure has an increasing number of bool attributes. This is
>> likely to increase in the future. And they have the same properties.
>> Wouldn't it be better to store them in bits? Common statements don't use
>> them, so they have little impact. This also saves memory space.
>
> I'm -1 on that, for three reasons:
>
> * The amount of space saved is quite negligible. If queries had many
> Query structs then it could matter, but they don't.
>
> * This causes enough code churn to create a headache for back-patching.
>
> * This'll completely destroy the readability of these flags in
> pprint output.
>
> I'm not greatly in love with the macro layer you propose, either,
> but those details don't matter because I think we should just
> leave well enough alone.
>
> regards, tom lane
I get it. Withdraw.