From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: logical column ordering |
Date: | 2015-02-27 19:44:06 |
Message-ID: | 54F0C906.5040404@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 27.2.2015 20:34, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> I think we could calls to the randomization functions into some of the
>> regression tests (say 'create_tables.sql'), but that makes regression
>> tests ... well, random, and I'm not convinced that's a good thing.
>>
>> Also, this makes regression tests harder to think, because "SELECT *"
>> does different things depending on the attlognum order.
>
> No, that approach doesn't seem very useful. Rather, randomize the
> columns in the CREATE TABLE statement, and then fix up the attlognums so
> that the SELECT * expansion is the same as it would be with the
> not-randomized CREATE TABLE.
Yes, that's a possible approach too - possibly a better one for
regression tests as it fixes the 'SELECT *' but it effectively uses
fixed 'attlognum' and 'attnum' values (it's difficult to randomize
those, as they may be referenced in other catalogs).
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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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