[HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use

Some not so long time ago, it was discussed to look into taking
stdbool.h into use.  The reason was that third-party libraries (perl?,
ldap?, postgis?) are increasingly doing so, and having incompatible
definitions of bool could/does create a mess.

Here is a patch set that aims to accomplish that.  On the way there, it
cleans up various loose and weird uses of bool and proposes a way to
ensure that the system catalog structs get a 1-byte bool even if the
"standard" bool is not.

I have done a fair amount of testing on this, including a hand-rigged
setup where _Bool is not 1 byte.  But obviously, more and wider testing
would be very useful.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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