Amul Sul <sula...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 8:09 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> static inline struct SMgrRelationData *
>> RelationGetSmgr(Relation rel)
>> {
>> if (unlikely(rel->rd_smgr == NULL))
>> RelationOpenSmgr(rel);
>> return rel->rd_smgr;
>> }
> A quick question: Can't it be a macro instead of an inline function
> like other macros we have in rel.h?
The multiple-evaluation hazard seems like an issue. We've tolerated
such hazards in the past, but mostly just because we weren't relying
on static inlines being available, so there wasn't a good way around
it.
Also, the conditional evaluation here would look rather ugly
in a macro, I think, if indeed you could do it at all without
provoking compiler warnings.
regards, tom lane
