| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)microolap(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stěhule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Proposal: variant of regclass |
| Date: | 2014-04-08 15:01:41 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoY-7KYvcVCWLggf1VMN=uPovJw54VwMSOtid7KtB4630w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Looks good, committed with a bit of further cleanup.
>
> I had not actually paid attention to the non-regclass parts of this, and
> now that I look, I've got to say that it seems borderline insane to have
> chosen to implement regproc/regoper rather than regprocedure/regoperator.
> The types implemented here are incapable of dealing with overloaded names,
> which --- particularly in the operator case --- makes them close to
> useless. I don't think this code was ready to commit.
Well, I noticed that, too, but I didn't think it was my job to tell
the patch author what functions he should have wanted. A follow-on
patch to add to_regprocedure and to_regoperator wouldn't be much work,
if you want that.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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