From: | Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Bug in reindexdb's error reporting |
Date: | 2019-05-10 15:18:11 |
Message-ID: | CAOBaU_Y_9HfGVJPX1E6HhCD2XETG4F1ynOtfQtpg5S0T-6fehA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:43 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2019-May-10, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> >> I just noticed that reindexdb could report an extraneous message
> >> saying an error happened while reindexing a database if it failed
> >> reindexing a table or an index.
>
> > Kudos, good find -- that's a 14 years old bug, introduced in this commit:
>
> Yeah :-(.
>
> Patch is good as far as it goes, but I wonder if it'd be smarter to
> convert the function's "type" argument from a string to an enum,
> and then replace the if/else chains with switches?
I've also thought about it. I think the reason why type argument was
kept as a string is that reindex_one_database is doing:
appendPQExpBufferStr(&sql, type);
to avoid an extra switch to append the textual reindex type. I don't
have a strong opinion on whether to change that on master or not.
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