Re: Strange assertion using VACOPT_FREEZE in vacuum.c

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange assertion using VACOPT_FREEZE in vacuum.c
Date: 2015-03-11 20:57:42
Message-ID: 10208.1426107462@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> But autovacuum is still manufacturing a VacuumStmt by hand. If we want
> to get rid of that, I think it'd work to have a new
> ExecVacuum(VacuumStmt, params) function which is called from
> standard_ProcessUtility and does just vacuum(rel, relid, params).
> Autovacuum on the other hand can call vacuum() without having to
> construct the parse node.

Why would we want to get rid of that? A struct is a handy and legible
way to pass a pile of parameters. I doubt it would be an improvement for
vacuum() to grow a long list of separate parameters.

regards, tom lane

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