Re: Fix pgstattuple/pgstatindex to use regclass-type as the argument

From: Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)uptime(dot)jp>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fix pgstattuple/pgstatindex to use regclass-type as the argument
Date: 2013-07-18 04:10:06
Message-ID: 51E76A9E.1060804@uptime.jp
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(2013/07/18 2:31), Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)uptime(dot)jp> wrote:
>> (2013/07/04 3:58), Fujii Masao wrote:
>>> For the test, I just implemented the regclass-version of pg_relpages()
>>> (patch attached) and tested some cases. But I could not get that problem.
>>>
>>> SELECT pg_relpages('hoge'); -- OK
>>> SELECT pg_relpages(oid) FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'hoge'; -- OK
>>> SELECT pg_relpages(relname) FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'hoge'; -- OK
>>
>> In the attached patch, I cleaned up three functions to have
>> two types of arguments for each, text and regclass.
>>
>> pgstattuple(text)
>> pgstattuple(regclass)
>> pgstatindex(text)
>> pgstatindex(regclass)
>> pg_relpages(text)
>> pg_relpages(regclass)
>>
>> I still think a regclass argument is more appropriate for passing
>> relation/index name to a function than text-type, but having both
>> arguments in each function seems to be a good choice at this moment,
>> in terms of backward-compatibility.
>>
>> Docs needs to be updated if this change going to be applied.
>
> Yes, please.

Updated docs and code comments, etc. PFA.

>> Any comments?
>
> 'make installcheck' failed in my machine.

Hmm, it works on my box...

> Do we need to remove pgstattuple--1.1.sql and create pgstattuple--1.1--1.2.sql?
>
> +/* contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple--1.1.sql */
>
> Typo: s/1.1/1.2

Done.

> You seem to have forgotten to update pgstattuple.c.

Should I change something in pgstattuple.c?

I just changed CREATE FUNCTION statement for pgstattuple
to replace oid input arg with the regclass.

Regards,
--
Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)uptime(dot)jp>
Uptime Technologies, LLC. http://www.uptime.jp

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