On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: >> KaiGai Kohei wrote: >>> However, it also seems to me that PostgreSQL implementation tend to >>> avoid to use inline functions actively. > >> I thought one advantage of using macros is that we force the inlining, > > The (only) good thing about macros is they're portable: they work, > and work the same, on every C compiler. This cannot be said of "inline".
Just out of curiosity, does C89, or whatever standard we follow, allow this? int somefunc(int x) { int foo[x]; /* use foo[] for scratch space */ } Obviously this is a bad plan if x can be a big number because you might crash your stack, but suppose we know that's not an issue? It seems a shame to have to do palloc/pfree in a situation like this. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers