Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Going by the commitfest app, the patch still does appear to be waiting
>>> on Author. Never-the-less, I've made another pass over it and found a
>>> few mistakes and a couple of ways to improve things:
>>>
>>
>> working on these. Should have a new patch tomorrow.
>>
>
>
> Here is a patch that attends to most of these, except that I haven't
> re-indented it.
>
> Your proposed changes to slot_getmissingattrs() wouldn't work, but I
> have rewritten it in a way that avoids the double work you disliked.
>

rebased and mostly indented patch version attached. It's actually
moderately difficult to produce a nicely indented patch that is
against non-pgindented code. We should look at that a bit. Another
item for my TODO list.

cheers

andrew

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