Re: is_view seems unnecessarily slow

Tom Lane wrote:
> backend/commands/command.c has a routine is_view() that tests for
> view-ness by scanning pg_rewrite (all of it) to see if the given
> relation has any ON SELECT rules.
>
> This is only used to disallow AlterTableAddConstraint and
> LockTableCommand on views. While I don't care much about the
> performance of AlterTableAddConstraint, it does bug me that this
> might slow down LOCK TABLE a good deal.
>
> Any objection to replacing this routine by a test for relkind = VIEW?

No objections.

These checks came from the days where views still had relkind
'r' and looking up pg_rewrite was the only way to know.

Jan

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