Re: BUG #16302: too many range table entries - when count partition table(65538 childs)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, digoal(at)126(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #16302: too many range table entries - when count partition table(65538 childs)
Date: 2020-03-20 02:21:53
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoayf1Ka1-OqL=BUCozNi88_zKCDc94qY4Gus8uRUg+a0A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:33 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > You could make INNER_VAR -1 and so on. Then it would probably break
> > quite clearly if it's not signedness clean.
>
> I kinda like this, because it'd avoid having random large constants
> in the code.
>
> We'd have to change Var.varno and some other places from Index to
> plain int, or else invent a typedef --- but the number of places
> currently using plain int for this sort of purpose is very large,
> so probably a new typedef is not worth the hassle.

Honestly, having typedef int RangeTableIndex seems pretty appealing to
me. OK, maybe there aren't that many places, but it would make it a
lot more greppable, which seems pretty nice.

--
Robert Haas
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