Re: mapping object names to role IDs

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> This is nonsense

You can assert that, but I don't agree. We certainly have places
(comment.c being the obvious example) where we need to look up a name
and map it to an OID without doing anything else, and actually I
believe there are useful ways to refactor the code that might lead to
more of this. Anyway, I think the code maintenance argument ought to
carry a lot more weight than whether one or two small files get
rebuilt for dependencies slightly more often. lsyscache.c might have
no conceptual consistency but it's extremely useful, and there are
plenty of other examples of where we've put code for different object
types into a single file to simplify maintenance and reduce code
complexity (e.g. copyfuncs, equalfuncs, outfuncs, etc.).

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