Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > ISTM it would be cleaner to patch PG_SETMASK to have a second argument > and to return the original mask if that's not NULL. This is more > invasive, but there aren't that many callsites of that macro.
[ shoulda read your message before replying ] Given that this needs back-patched, I think changing PG_SETMASK is a bad idea: there might be outside callers. However, we could add another macro with the additional argument. PG_GET_AND_SET_MASK? regards, tom lane