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Re: Cache lookup errors with functions manipulation object addresses

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-02T05:35:16Z
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:30:11PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> The new FORMAT_TYPE_* flag still makes sense to me while reading this
> code once again, as well as the extensibility of the new APIs for
> operators and procedures.  One doubt I still have is if we should
> really change the signature of getObjectDescription() to include the
> new missing_ok argument or if a new function should be introduced.
> I'd rather keep only one function as, even if this is called in many
> places in the backend, I cannot track down an extension using it, but
> I won't go against Alvaro's will either if he thinks something
> different as this is his original design and commit as of f8348ea3.

Attached is an updated patch set, because of conflicts in the docs.
Daniel, you are still registered as a reviewer of this patch, and it
is marked as ready for committer?  Do you have more comments?  Would
anybody have objections if I move on with 0001 and 0002 that extend
the APIs to get the procedure, operator and type names?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Eliminate cache lookup errors in SQL functions for object addresses

  2. Refactor routines for name lookups of procedures and operators

  3. Add new flag to format_type_extended() to get NULL for undefined type

  4. Introduce new extended routines for FDW and foreign server lookups

  5. Refactor routines for subscription and publication lookups

  6. get_relid_attribute_name is dead, long live get_attname

  7. Tweak parser so that there is a defined representation for datatypes