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Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2017-03-10T02:06:56Z
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Tom Lane wrote:

> (And no, I don't especially
> approve of RELKIND_SEQUENCE being 'S' either, but it's far too late to
> change that.)

FWIW the reason SEQUENCE uses S instead of 's' is that the latter was
taken for "special" relations, which we removed a few releases ago
(commit 3a694bb0a1).

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Commits

  1. Change the relkind for partitioned tables from 'P' to 'p'.

  2. Fix hard-coded relkind constants in assorted other files.

  3. Fix hard-coded relkind constants in assorted src/bin files.

  4. Fix hard-coded relkind constants in psql/describe.c.

  5. Fix hard-coded relkind constants in pg_dump.c.

  6. Restructure LOCKTAG as per discussions of a couple months ago.