Re: Cache lookup errors with functions manipulation object addresses

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-07T05:49:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:56:53AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think "routine" was more correct.  We introduced that terminology to
> encompass both functions and procedures, back when real procedures were
> added.  See the definitions in the glossary for example.

Okay, fine by me, while we have getProcedureTypeDescription() working
on pg_proc entries ;)

> I'm not sure that I'll have time to review this in the next couple of
> days, but it seemed sufficiently good when I last looked.

Thanks.  I'll try to come back to it next week or the one after for
another round of self-review, and I'll see what to do at this point.
This has been around for three years, it can still wait a bit.
--
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