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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: lwlocknames.h beautification attempt
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:26:07 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwTF4VxfwDtRV-H22_XK4XeDogaV-Vaobu+af5U=8ZAZn9ZZQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABwTF4VxfwDtRV-H22_XK4XeDogaV-Vaobu+af5U=8ZAZn9ZZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]> writes:
> I propose the following change to the generation script,
> generate-lwlocknames.pl
> ...
> which produces the lock names in this format

> #define ShmemIndexLock                 (&MainLWLockArray[1].lock)
> #define OidGenLock                     (&MainLWLockArray[2].lock)
> #define XidGenLock                     (&MainLWLockArray[3].lock)
> #define ProcArrayLock                  (&MainLWLockArray[4].lock)
> #define SInvalReadLock                 (&MainLWLockArray[5].lock)

This looks reasonably in line with project style ...

> Yet another format, which I prefer, can be achieved by right-aligning the
> lock names.

> #define                 ShmemIndexLock (&MainLWLockArray[1].lock)
> #define                     OidGenLock (&MainLWLockArray[2].lock)
> #define                     XidGenLock (&MainLWLockArray[3].lock)
> #define                  ProcArrayLock (&MainLWLockArray[4].lock)
> #define                 SInvalReadLock (&MainLWLockArray[5].lock)

... but that doesn't.  I challenge you to provide even one example
of that layout in our source tree, or to explain why it's better.

			regards, tom lane






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