On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> But if you're going to do that, get rid of DoneMatchingIndexKeys
>>> altogether,
>
>> Sure. That's a giant crock.
>
>>> along with the extra zero that plancat.c adds to the
>>> opfamily array. We don't need to be using more than one way to
>>> iterate over those arrays.
>
>> I am slightly worried that this might break third-party code, or even
>> some part of the core code that's still using the old system. I don't
>> mind if you want to rip it out, but personally, I'd rather leave that
>> part well enough alone. Revised patch attached.
>
> I'll take the responsibility if you don't want to ;-)
Sold! :-)
> I think your revised patch is incorrect, or at least not terribly safe,
> to just remove the last DoneMatchingIndexKeys test and not replace it
> with anything else. Other than that it looks okay as far as it goes.
> Do you want to commit it yourself, or shall I incorporate it in a more
> extensive cleanup?
If it's all right with you, I'll go ahead and commit this and then you
can break as much more stuff as you like. :-)
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