Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Somebody failed to grasp the point of having the #ifdef CATCACHE_STATS
>> fields at the end of the struct. Put that back the way it should be,
>> and add a comment making it more explicit why it should be that way.
> Actually, the CATCACHE_STATS was added purposefully not at end of
> struct, because back then cc_bucket was a variable-length array; see
> commit 786340441706 (2002). It only became possible to do this after
> commit 20cb18db4668 (2013). I researched this because I vaguely
> believed this to be my fault (a66ee69ad) but that's not so.
Hah, okay. Well, it's better now than it was.
(Actually, I wonder why we expose struct catcache to the rest of the
world at all.)
regards, tom lane
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