Re: Add parallelism and glibc dependent only options to reindexdb

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:11 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> On 2019-Jul-22, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
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> > >        simple_string_list_append(&tables, optarg);
> > > +      tbl_count++;
> > >        break;
> > > The number of items in a simple list is not counted, and vacuumdb does
> > > the same thing to count objects.  What do you think about extending
> > > simple lists to track the number of items stored?
> >
> > I considered this, but it would require to adapt all code that declare
> > SimpleStringList stack variable (vacuumdb.c, clusterdb.c,
> > createuser.c, pg_dumpall.c and pg_dump.c), so it looked like too much
> > trouble to avoid 2 local variables here and 1 in vacuumdb.c.  I don't
> > have a strong opinion here, so I can go for it if you prefer.
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> Can we use List for this instead?

Isn't that for backend code only?