> On 27 Feb 2018, at 11:10, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes:
>>> On 27 Feb 2018, at 05:25, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> BTW, I noticed while doing this that the adjacent "funny_dup17"
>>> trigger is dead code, and has been since commit 1547ee01 of
>>> 1999-09-29.  I'm inclined to rip it out, because anyone looking
>>> at regress.c would naturally assume that anything in there is
>>> being exercised.
> 
>> +1, yes please.  regress_dist_ptpath() and regress_path_dist() in regress.c
>> also seem to be dead, and have been so for..  quite some time.
> 
> Yeah.  Looking at
> https://coverage.postgresql.org/src/test/regress/regress.c.gcov.html
> it's evident that none of these functions are actually exercised
> in the regression tests:

Aha, that was a more clever way of figuring it out than what I did.

> I'm inclined to just remove regress_dist_ptpath, regress_path_dist,
> poly2path, boxarea, and funny_dup17.  The others might better be dealt
> with by making some actual use of them, since those type and operator
> creation commands seem to have some test value of their own.

Agreed.

> I notice BTW that int44in and int44out are not inverses, ie int44out
> produces a string that int44in can't read :-(.  We'd definitely have to
> fix that if we wanted to make any real use of the type.

Thats not nice given that the names imply that, but I agree that it’s not
something that needs to be changed given its current usecase.  That probably
warrants a comment in regress.c and/or the create_type test suite though.

cheers ./daniel

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