On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes:
>> Why bother with the 'rte' variable at all if it's only used for the
>> Assert()ing the rtekind?
>
> That was proposed a few messages back. I don't like it because it makes
> these functions look different from the other scan-cost-estimation
> functions, and we'd just have to undo the "optimization" if they ever
> grow a need to reference the rte for another purpose.
I think that's sort of silly, though. It's a trivial difference,
neither likely to confuse anyone nor difficult to undo.
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