I wrote: > It looks like a workaround for some ancient compiler problem. [ digs > for awhile... ] Very ancient: we inherited that hack from Berkeley,
In fact, now that I know where to look, I find the same thing in the
postgres-v4r2 tarball, which means the hack is pre-1994. I don't have
anything older to look at.
regards, tom lane
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