Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2022-Oct-10, Andres Freund wrote:
>> We could, but is it really a useful thing for something fixed 6 years ago?

> Well, for people purposefully installing using older installs of Perl
> (not me, admittedly), it does seem useful, because you get the benefit
> of checking shadow vars for the rest of the tree and still get no
> warnings if everything is clean.

Meh --- people purposefully using old Perls are likely using old
compilers too.  Let's wait and see if any devs actually complain.

            regards, tom lane