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From: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: remove bits* types
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:41:09 -0400
Message-ID: <CAAKRu_ZucXL3mLc0f-t_7giiChN9Zad2EAr9SoAqFFc95vFaOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 05:27:34PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I'm mildly in favor of removing them.  But it appears there is no consensus.
>
> Same here.  While it still doesn't look like anybody is totally opposed to
> the idea, you are right that there is no consensus.

I really wish we would remove them. I want fewer confusing typedefs in
the code -- not more. I'm quite sad that as of 1bd6f22f43ac1b we are
now using them more widely (and publicly), and I feel that was done
without consensus. It should just use a regular uint32 -- like other
places we do this (e.g. scan_begin() amongst many others).

- Melanie

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