Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Joe Conway wrote:
> >> 2) This allocation size was a bit ambigous and I think based on a once
> >> longer tablespace directory name:
>
> > This size calculation originated (copy/paste) from
> > commands/tablespace.c,
>
> Yeah --- Bruce did not adjust the string length calculations when he
> editorialized on the directory name. I'd been meaning to go back and
> make them match.
>
> > should be clarified there too (and "pg_tblspc" is
> > hardcoded in strings, could be extracted to a macro definition).
>
> [ shrug... ] The name is not going to change again. I have never cared
> for the practice of writing strlen("foo") as if it were a compile-time
> constant. But certainly it would be entirely pointless to define such a
> macro and then use it in only one place.
I think with gcc strlen("foo") is a compile-time constant. At least I
remember that as a gcc optimization. What do you prefer?
sizeof("foo")-1? Certainly +3 is poorly documented, no?
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