Hi,
On 2019-03-04 13:11:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The concern I have is mostly about the use of lists as core infrastructure
> in parsetree, plantree, etc data structures. I think any idea that we'd
> replace those piecemeal is borderline insane: it's simply not worth it
> from a notational and bug-risk standpoint to glue together some parts of
> those structures differently from the way other parts are glued together.
I don't buy this. I think e.g. redisgning the way we represent
targetlists would be good (it's e.g. insane that we recompute
descriptors out of them all the time), and would reduce their allocator
costs.
Greetings,
Andres Freund