From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: shadow variables - pg15 edition
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:02:47 -0400
Message-ID: <4145595.1665421367@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221010165358.7aion6kdxpjonpkk@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20221010165358.7aion6kdxpjonpkk@alvherre.pgsql>
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2022-Oct-10, Andres Freund wrote:
>> We could, but is it really a useful thing for something fixed 6 years ago?
> Well, for people purposefully installing using older installs of Perl
> (not me, admittedly), it does seem useful, because you get the benefit
> of checking shadow vars for the rest of the tree and still get no
> warnings if everything is clean.
Meh --- people purposefully using old Perls are likely using old
compilers too. Let's wait and see if any devs actually complain.
regards, tom lane
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