Re: get_constraint_index() and conindid

Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>

From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-08T14:52:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 11:09, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> get_constraint_index() does its work by going through pg_depend.  It was
> added before pg_constraint.conindid was added, and some callers are
> still not changed.  Are there reasons for that?  Probably not.  The
> attached patch changes get_constraint_index() to an lsyscache-style
> lookup instead.

This looks quite reasonable, and it passes "make installcheck-world".

Only thing I could think of is that it maybe could use a (small)
comment in the message on that/why get_constraint_index is moved to
utils/lsyscache from catalog/dependency, as that took me some time to
understand.



Commits

  1. Change get_constraint_index() to use pg_constraint.conindid