Re: Add parallelism and glibc dependent only options to reindexdb

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Add parallelism and glibc dependent only options to reindexdb
Date: 2019-07-22 15:11:50
Message-ID: 20190722151150.GA22364@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Jul-22, Julien Rouhaud wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> > simple_string_list_append(&tables, optarg);
> > + tbl_count++;
> > break;
> > The number of items in a simple list is not counted, and vacuumdb does
> > the same thing to count objects. What do you think about extending
> > simple lists to track the number of items stored?
>
> I considered this, but it would require to adapt all code that declare
> SimpleStringList stack variable (vacuumdb.c, clusterdb.c,
> createuser.c, pg_dumpall.c and pg_dump.c), so it looked like too much
> trouble to avoid 2 local variables here and 1 in vacuumdb.c. I don't
> have a strong opinion here, so I can go for it if you prefer.

Can we use List for this instead?

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