On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:09 AM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Open-coding stuff like this can easily work out to a loss, and I > personally think we're overly dependent on List. It's not a > particularly good abstraction, IMHO, and if we do a lot of work to > start using it everywhere because a list is really an array, then what > happens when somebody decides that a list really ought to be a > skip-list, or a hash table, or some other crazy thing?
This paragraph was a bit garbled. I meant to say that open-coding can be better than relying on a canned abstraction, but it came out the other way around. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
