Re: [RFC] Common object property boards - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [RFC] Common object property boards
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Msg-id CA+TgmoY7hZWXeTbkRJHPea_GWnwZAyydM8rCk1XbO1Zk8emO2A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [RFC] Common object property boards  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It would likely be better to not expose the struct type, just individual
> lookup functions.

I'm not sure about that...  I think that's just going to introduce a
lot of excess notation.

>> And, a translation from ObjectType to type name (e.g "table", "type", ...)
>> is helpful to generate error messages.
>
>>   const char *get_object_type_name(ObjectType objtype);
>
> Again, I think this is too low level because of message translation
> considerations.

On this point I agree.

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Robert Haas
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