Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of lun nov 21 19:11:21 -0300 2011:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > I just noticed that btvacuumpage has two BlockNumber parameters -- blkno
> > and orig_blkno. The only caller passes them as the same value; the
> > header comments state that blkno would be different when recursing, but
> > actually the function implements recursion internally by way of a cute
> > "goto" trick. So it seems to me that the orig_blkno parameter is
> > useless -- we could just remove it.
> >
> > Unless I'm completely missing something?
>
> tail recursion - read comments at bottom of the function
Right, but we don't need to pass the value as a parameter, we can just
save it at the start of the function, as my proposed patch does, right?
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