Re: ArchiveEntry optional arguments refactoring

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ArchiveEntry optional arguments refactoring
Date: 2019-01-23 16:58:07
Message-ID: 201901231658.fls2whf2xypv@alvherre.pgsql
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Hello

On 2019-Jan-23, Andres Freund wrote:

> > All the arguments, except Archive, CatalogId and DumpId I've moved
> > into the ArchiveOpts structure. Not all of them could be empty before, but
> > anyway it seems better for consistency and readability. Some of the arguments
> > had empty string as a default value, I haven't changed anything here yet
> > (although this mixture of NULL and "" in ArchiveEntry looks a bit confusing).
>
> Probably worth changing at the same time, if we decide to go for it.
>
> To me this does look like it'd be more maintainable going forward.

It does. How does pgindent behave with it?

I'd use ArchiveEntryOpts as struct name; ArchiveOpts sounds wrong. Also,
the struct members could use better names -- "defn" for example could
perhaps be "createStmt" (to match dropStmt/copyStmt), and expand "desc"
to "description".

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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