Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hm, one would hope that the vast majority of code references are neither
>> of those, but rather "RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE".

> For reasons which must've seemed good to whoever instituted the
> policy, pg_dump refers to relkinds using the bare letters rather than
> the constants.

Even in pg_dump, it appears to me that the large majority of relkind
references use the symbolic names. Quite a few of the violations of
that policy look to be new ... and now that I see them, their days are
numbered.

> (And protocol message types don't even have defined constants. Uggh.)

Yeah, that's a different issue, which boils down to the fact that in order
to do anything useful we'd need to clutter client-visible namespace with
the symbols. I wouldn't be averse to doing something about it as long as
it's not done in postgres_ext.h, but if not there where?

regards, tom lane