On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Call me a trogdolyte, but I don't follow how it's an improvement. > It looks to me like an entirely random change that doesn't get rid > of assumptions about what the bits are, it just replaces one set of > assumptions with a different set. Moreover, the new set of assumptions > may include "there are no padding bits in here", which is mighty fragile > and hard to verify. So I frankly do not find this a stylistic improvement.
Ditto. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com