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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: get_constraint_index() and conindid
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:50:26 +0100
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On 2020-12-09 07:37, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> Only thing I could think of is that it maybe could use a (small)
>>> comment in the message on that/why get_constraint_index is moved to
>>> utils/lsyscache from catalog/dependency, as that took me some time to
>>> understand.
>>
>> commit message could reasonably say that maybe, but I don't think we
>> need to memorialize it in a comment.  lsyscache.c *is* where one
>> would expect to find a simple catalog-field-fetch function like this.
>> The previous implementation was not that, so it didn't belong there.
> 
> Agreed.

Thanks, I committed it with an expanded commit message.

After further inspection, I'm not going to do anything about the nearby 
get_index_constraint() at this item.  The current implementation can use 
an index on pg_depend.  A scan of pg_constraint has no index available.





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