Re: Backpatch b61d161c14 (Introduce vacuum errcontext ...)

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:14:40AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I am only suggesting that where you save the old location, as currently
> > done with LVRelStats olderrinfo, you instead use a more specific
> > type. Not that you should pass that anywhere (except for
> > update_vacuum_error_info).
>
> As things currently stand, I don't think we need another struct
> type at all. ISTM we should hard-wire the handling of indname
> as I suggested above. Then there are only two fields to be dealt
> with, and we could just as well save them in simple local variables.
>
> If there's a clear future path to needing to save/restore more
> fields, then maybe another struct type would be useful ... but
> right now the struct type declaration itself would take more
> lines of code than it would save.

Updated patches for consideration. I left the "struct" patch there to show
what it'd look like.

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Justin