Re: Real Programmers (was: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: Real Programmers (was: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6)
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Msg-id m10s0Ry-0003kGC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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In response to Re: Real Programmers (was: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6)  (Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>)
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> Actually, I just don't think that breaks in loops are always better
> than gotos.
>
> >     Vadim  is  surely one of the real programmers in our project.
> >     It's not only that he isn't  afraid  using  GOTO's.  He  also
>
> Like someone didn't afraid to use siglongjmp in elog.c.

    There  are  much  better  ones in the PL handlers! memcpy()'s
    mangling sigjmp_buf's between sigsetjmp() siglongjmp() stuff.

>
> >     know's  very  well how to speed things up by complicating the
> >     code :-)
>
> -:)
>
> VAdim
>


Jan

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