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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: remove bits* types
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:41:29 +0900
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm content with the status quo personally, but perhaps it'd be
> worth adding some info to the comment for the bitsNN typedefs
> to make it clearer what they are intended for.  I'm imagining
> something along the lines of

Not sure why we absolutely need to be aggressive with a removal here,
so I'm +/-0 on that.  And there is always the argument of breaking the
compilation of out-of-core code.  That would be easily fixable, still
always slightly annoying.
--
Michael


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