Re: DROP FUNCTION of multiple functions

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12/1/16 9:32 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I think it would be better to get rid of objargs and have objname be a
>> general Node that can contain more specific node types so that there is
>> some amount of type tracking. FuncWithArgs would be one such type,
>> Typename would be another, Value would be used for simple strings, and
>> we could create some other ones, or stick with lcons for some simple
>> cases. But then we don't have to make stuff into one-item lists to just
>> to satisfy the currently required List.
>>
>> That's the general idea. But that's a rather big change that I would
>> rather break down into smaller pieces.
>
> People wanted to the whole thing at once, so here it is.
>
> Patches 0001 and 0002 are some prep work. Patch 0003 is the main patch
> that removes the objargs fields and changes the objname to a generic
> Node*. 0004 is an API simplification that could be committed together
> with 0003 but I kept it separate for easier review. 0005 accomplishes
> the DROP FUNCTION changes. 0006 is some other cleanup that fell out of
> this.

I haven't reviewed this in any detail but I think the general approach
is sensible.

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