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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cleanup shadows variable warnings, round 1
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 09:56:07 +0900
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 11:11:04AM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I don't know if we've agreed on a goal of getting rid of all shadowing, it's
> a lot of code churn. I agree shadowing is often confusing and error-prone,
> so maybe it's worth it.

(Providing my own context with more information on the matter, Peter
E. mentioning this commit upthread.)

As far as I know, the latest consensus with shadow variables was that
-Wshadow=compatible-local was OK for now, 0fe954c28584 mentioning that
we could consider a tighter -Wshadow=local later on.  I don't recall a
clear objection about doing a tighter move, just that it was a lot of
work for unclear gains especially when it comes to the extra
backpatching noise.
--
Michael


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