Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE
Date: 2017-03-07 23:03:38
Message-ID: 8913.1488927818@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Is there a good reason why RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE is 'P' not 'p'?

> I can't muster a lot of outrage about this one way or another. One
> possible advantage of 'P' is that there are fewer places where 'P' is
> mentioned in the source code than 'p'.

Hm, one would hope that the vast majority of code references are neither
of those, but rather "RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE". information_schema.sql
and system_views.sql will need to be gone over carefully, certainly, but
we shouldn't be hard-coding this anywhere that there's a reasonable
alternative.

regards, tom lane

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