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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Alexey Kondratov <a.kondratov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>
Subject: Re: Allow CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and REINDEX to change tablespace on the fly
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 11:48:30 -0400
Message-ID: <20200901154830.GA8891@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200901154354.GD5450@telsasoft.com>

On 2020-Sep-01, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > The advantage of using a parenthesized option list is that you can add
> > *further* options without making the new keywords reserved.  Of course,
> > we already reserve CONCURRENTLY and VERBOSE pretty severely, so there's
> > no change.  If you wanted REINDEX FLUFFY then it wouldn't work without
> > making that at least type_func_name_keyword I think; but REINDEX
> > (FLUFFY) would work just fine.  And of course the new feature at hand
> > can be implemented.
> 
> The question isn't whether to use a parenthesized option list.  I realized that
> long ago (even though Alexey didn't initially like it).  Check 0002, which gets
> rid of "bool concurrent" in favour of stmt->options&REINDEXOPT_CONCURRENT.

Ah!  I see, sorry for the noise.  Well, respectfully, having a separate
boolean to store one option when you already have a bitmask for options
is silly.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services





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