Re: [HACKERS] Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE
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Msg-id 8718.1489111858@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Bizarre choice of case for RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> (And no, I don't especially
>> approve of RELKIND_SEQUENCE being 'S' either, but it's far too late to
>> change that.)

> FWIW the reason SEQUENCE uses S instead of 's' is that the latter was
> taken for "special" relations, which we removed a few releases ago
> (commit 3a694bb0a1).

Yeah, I'd just been reminded of that by some code in describe.c.
So there actually is a reason for sequences to be 'S', or once was.
        regards, tom lane



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