Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1197)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1197)
Date: 2008-11-18 16:07:53
Message-ID: 20169.1227024473@sss.pgh.pa.us
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> writes:
> I'll try your approash in first, as follows:

This seems a vast amount of uglification to avoid adding an argument to
CreateTemplateTupleDesc. We do that kind of thing all the time --- it
is a simple and reliable change to make.

When designing a patch, you should generally try to make the code look
like the patch has been there all along. Contorting logic to avoid
a simple API change is not good.

regards, tom lane

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