Re: Refactor textToQualifiedNameList()

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Refactor textToQualifiedNameList()
Date: 2018-10-11 01:01:05
Message-ID: 20181011010105.GE2204@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:45:22AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Oct-10, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 09:54:12AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> The committer of such a change will get a lot of flak for changing the
>>> #include requirements for code that calls that function, though.
>>
>> So the patch has been switched to rejected...
>
> I know -- I'm just disagreeing with that.

The point of moving stringToQualifiedNameList out of regproc.c to
varlena.c is actually a good one, if we don't add the extra palloc
overhead. Now I suspect that any change of header makes plugin
maintainers unhappy, and I can see this routine extensively used on
github, like pipelineDB or such.
--
Michael

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