Re: move PartitionBoundInfo creation code

On 2018-Nov-08, Amit Langote wrote:

> On 2018/11/08 0:04, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 03:34:38PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> >>> I think we can design the interface of partition_bounds_create such that
> >>> it returns information needed to re-arrange OIDs to be in the canonical
> >>> partition bound order, so the actual re-ordering of OIDs can be done by
> >>> the caller itself. (It may not always be OIDs, could be something else
> >>> like a struct to represent fake partitions.)
> >
> > This is interesting. I don't think the current interface is so bad that
> > we can't make a few tweaks later; IOW let's focus on the current patch
> > for now, and we can improve later. You (and David, and maybe someone
> > else) already have half a dozen patches touching this code, and I bet
> > some of these will have to be rebased over this one.
>
> The patch on ATTACH/DETACH concurrently thread is perhaps touching close
> to here, but I'm not sure if any of it should be concerned about how we
> generate the PartitionBoundInfo which the patch here trying to make into
> its own function?

Yeah, definitely not.

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