Re: Fixes inconsistent behavior in vacuum when it processes multiple relations

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, shihao zhong <zhong950419(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixes inconsistent behavior in vacuum when it processes multiple relations
Date: 2026-03-20 20:32:48
Message-ID: aglpy2jbnb75vufdx6hqkgokquzmoshcbnuxlcxhum4k7tyi7m@27m4hbxo2u2g
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Hi,

On 2026-03-20 14:39:11 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 12:27:49PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Why wasn't it enough to add const markers and keep passing by pointer?
>
> IIRC the idea was to prevent similar problems in the future.

Seems using const VacuumParams *params should suffice for that? I don't think
it's particularly likely that we'll accept code that casts the const away and
then later get hurt by that.

> To avoid the extra #includes, we could instead use the back-patched version
> (e.g., commit 661643deda).

I'd probably not go quite there, at least the params should largely be const,
with a local on-stack copy where we do need to modify.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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