On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 09:51:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> John Naylor <john.nay...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > As I understand it, the point of having "do {} while (0)" in a
> > multi-statement macro is to turn it into a simple statement.
>
> Right.
>
> > As such,
> > ending with a semicolon in both the macro definition and the
> > invocation will turn it back into multiple statements, creating
> > confusion if someone were to invoke the macro in an "if" statement.
>
> Yeah. I'd call these actual bugs, and perhaps even back-patch worthy.
Agreed. Those semicolons could easily create bugs.
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