Re: [v9.2] DROP Reworks Part.1 - Consolidate routines to handle DropStmt

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-07-06T18:02:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié jul 06 12:40:39 -0400 2011:
>
>> This patch removes an impressive amount of boilerplate code and
>> replaces it with something much more compact.   I like that.  In the
>> interest of full disclosure, I suggested this approach to KaiGai at
>> PGCon, so I'm biased: but even so, I'm pleasantly surprised by the
>> amount of consolidation that appears possible here.
>
> Yeah.  Myself, I love the fact that the dropmsgstrings thing is gone.  I
> wonder if the routine to obtain "foo doesn't exist, skipping" messages
> could be replaced by judicious use of getObjectDescription.

I've been told we don't want to go further in that direction for
reasons of translatability.

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