David Rowley <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 12:54, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >> Yes, I think you have a point that progress here would be good and that >> it's worth some pain. But the names will make even less sense if we just >> shunt in an array based approach under the already obscure list >> API.
> If we feel strongly about fixing that then probably it would be as > simple as renaming the functions and adding some macros with the old > names and insisting that all new or changed code use the functions and > not the macro wrappers. Meh ... Neil Conway already did a round of that back in 2004 or whenever, and I'm not especially excited about another round. I'm not really following Andres' aversion to the list API --- it's not any more obscure than a whole lot of things in Postgres. (Admittedly, as somebody who dabbled in Lisp decades ago, I might be more used to it than some folks.) regards, tom lane