Re: Views no longer in rangeTabls?

On 6/13/23 10:27, Amit Langote wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:44 PM David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> 
>> I decided to go with the following because I think it
>> is easier to read:
>>
>> /* We only care about tables/views and can ignore subqueries, etc. */
>> if (!(rte->rtekind == RTE_RELATION ||
>>         (rte->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY && rte->relkind == RELKIND_VIEW)))
>>       continue;
> 
> It didn't occur to me so far to mention it but this could be replaced with:
> 
>      if (rte->perminfoindex != 0)
> 
> and turn that condition into an Assert instead, like the loop over
> range table in ExecCheckPermissions() does.

Hmmm, that might work, and save us a filter on rte->perminfoindex later 
on (to filter out table partitions). Thanks for the tip!

>>> I considered adding Assert(relkind == RELKIND_VIEW) in all places that
>>> have the "rte->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY && OidIsValid(rte->relid)"
>>> condition, but that seemed like an overkill, so only added one in the
>>> #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING block in ExecCheckPermissions() that
>>> f75cec4fff877 added.
>>
>> This seems like a good place for the assert.
> 
> I added a comment above this Assert.
> 
> I'd like to push this tomorrow barring objections.

+1 for the new comment.

Regards,
-David