Pavel Stehule escribió:
> 2014-02-17 18:10 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:
> > Maybe I am mistaken and the te->dropStmt already contains the IF EXISTS
> > bit for some reason; but if so I don't know why that is. Care to
> > explain?
>
> pg_restore is available to read plain dump produced by pg_dump --if-exists.
> It is way how IF EXISTS can infect te->dropStmt
Makes sense, I guess.
> > I also think that _getObjectDescription() becomes overworked after this
> > patch. I wonder if we should be storing te->objIdentity so that we can
> > construct the ALTER OWNER command without going to as much trouble as
> > parsing the DROP command. Is there a way to do that? Maybe we can ask
> > the server for the object identity, for example. There is a new
> > function to do that in 9.3 which perhaps we can now use.
>
> do you think a pg_describe_object function?
>
> Probably it is possible, but its significantly much more invasive change,
> you should to get objidentity, that is not trivial
I was thinking in pg_identify_object(). It can be given the values used
to construct the CatalogId of each tocEntry.
But yes, it is more invasive.
I'd guess that would be a project related to cleaning up the ALTER
OWNER. What we have now looks like an kludge.
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