Re: ALTER OBJECT any_name SET SCHEMA name

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-21T04:23:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> Not having read the patch, but ... the idea that was in the back of
>>> my mind was to have a generic AlterObjectNamespace function that
>>> would take parameters approximately like the following:
>>
>> Please find attached what I came up with, that's the set_schema patch
>> version 6.
>
> Looks good overall, but:
>
> In AlterObjectNamespace(), you reference ACL_KIND_CONVERSION, which I
> suspect actually needs to be yet another parameter to that function.
> I've had the thought before that we have a deplorable number of
> different ways of referring to object types in the back end:
> ACL_KIND_*, OCLASS_*, OBJECT_*, and class IDs.  We should maybe look
> at unifying some or all of those.
>
> getObjectDescriptionOids() needs a prototype somewhere.
>
> And probably most significantly, you need to add docs and regression tests.

Ah, nuts.  I see now there's a v7.  Never mind...

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