> On 17 Oct 2021, at 22:05, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-Oct-16, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Attached is a proposed patch that refactors getTables() along the
>> same lines as some previous work (eg 047329624, ed2c7f65b, daa9fe8a5)
>> to avoid having multiple partially-redundant copies of the SQL query.
>> This gets rid of nearly 300 lines of duplicative spaghetti code,
>> creates a uniform style for dealing with cross-version changes
>> (replacing at least three different methods currently being used
>> for that in this same stretch of code), and allows moving some
>> comments to be closer to the code they describe.
>
> Yeah, this seems a lot better than the original coding.
+1
> Maybe I would group together the changes that all require the same version
> test, rather than keeping the output columns in the same order.
I agree with that, if we're doing all this we might as well go all the way for
readability.
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