Re: Bug in reindexdb's error reporting

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:33 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> On 2019-May-10, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
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> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:43 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> > > Patch is good as far as it goes, but I wonder if it'd be smarter to
> > > convert the function's "type" argument from a string to an enum,
> > > and then replace the if/else chains with switches?
> >
> > I've also thought about it.  I think the reason why type argument was
> > kept as a string is that reindex_one_database is doing:
> >
> >     appendPQExpBufferStr(&sql, type);
> >
> > to avoid an extra switch to append the textual reindex type.  I don't
> > have a strong opinion on whether to change that on master or not.
>
> I did have the same thought.  It seem clear now that we should do it :-)
> ISTM that the way to fix that problem is to use the proposed enum
> everywhere and turn it into a string when generating the SQL command,
> not before.

ok :)  Patch v2 attached.