Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE
Date: 2017-03-10 02:10:58
Message-ID: 8718.1489111858@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> (And no, I don't especially
>> approve of RELKIND_SEQUENCE being 'S' either, but it's far too late to
>> change that.)

> FWIW the reason SEQUENCE uses S instead of 's' is that the latter was
> taken for "special" relations, which we removed a few releases ago
> (commit 3a694bb0a1).

Yeah, I'd just been reminded of that by some code in describe.c.
So there actually is a reason for sequences to be 'S', or once was.

regards, tom lane

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