Re: small makeVar refactoring

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-21T21:49:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> While hacking around, I noticed that a lot of makeVar() calls could be
> refactored into some convenience functions, to save some redundancy and
> so that the unusual call patterns stand out better.  Useful?

I'm not real thrilled with importing catalog/pg_attribute.h into
makefuncs.h; that seems like a lot of namespace pollution for not much
return.  So -1 to makeVarFromAttribute.  The other is okay although I'm
not convinced it's useful enough to bother with.

			regards, tom lane