Re: [PATCH] Do not use StdRdOptions in Access Methods

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan(at)nataraj(dot)su>, Dent John <denty(at)qqdd(dot)eu>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Iwata, Aya" <iwata(dot)aya(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not use StdRdOptions in Access Methods
Date: 2019-11-07 01:58:51
Message-ID: CA+HiwqEpNi21RYiyvKaio445c=Q+9qwx-RZyRZKvri45No2WHQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 10:54 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 10:49:38AM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> > I looked around but don't understand why these macros need to be
> > exposed. I read this comment:
> >
> > * Note that this is more or less the same that fillRelOptions does, so only
> > * use this if you need to do something non-standard within some option's
> > * code block.
> >
> > but don't see how an AM author might be able to do something
> > non-standard with this interface.
> >
> > Maybe Alvaro knows this better.
>
> Perhaps there is a point in cleaning up all that more, but I am not
> sure that it is worth potentially breaking other people's code.

Sure. Maybe, we could add a deprecation note for these more
fine-grained APIs like my first patch did.

+/*
+ * Using parseRelOptions(), allocateReloptStruct(), and fillRelOptions()
+ * directly is Deprecated; use build_reloptions() instead.
+ */

Thanks,
Amit

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