Re: BUG #15572: Misleading message reported by "Drop function operation" on DB with functions having same name

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ash M <makmarath(at)hotmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #15572: Misleading message reported by "Drop function operation" on DB with functions having same name
Date: 2019-02-19 17:48:04
Message-ID: CAOBaU_bzP+8nmSaidDtkVBji8hxuXKwGHxjJ7yPRCYD4r-Sovw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >
> > Extensions calling those functions with old true/false values probably
> > won't get any warning or error during compile. Is is something we
> > should worry about or is it enough to keep the same behavior in this
> > case?
>
> Yeah, I thought about that. We can avoid such problems by assigning
> the enum values such that 0 and 1 correspond to the old behaviors.
> I didn't look to see if the proposed patch does it like that right
> now, but it should be an easy fix if not.

It does, I was just wondering whether that was a good enough solution.

Thinking more about it, I'm not sure if there's a general policy for
enums, but should we have an AssertArg() in LookupFuncName[WithArgs]
to check that a correct value was passed?

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