Re: Unused function parameter in get_qual_from_partbound()

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 21:50, houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com
<houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> I noticed that the first function parameter in get_qual_from_partbound(**Relation rel**, Relation parent,
> is not used in the function.
>
> Is it better to remove it like the attached patch ?

Going by [1] it was used when it went in. It looks like it was for
mapping attribute numbers between parent and partition rels.

Going by [2], it looks like it became unused due to the attribute
mapping code being moved down into map_partition_varattnos().

As for whether we should remove it or not, because it's an external
function that an extension might want to use, it would need to wait
until at least we branch for PG15.

Likely it's best to add the patch to the July commitfest so that we
can make a decision then.

David

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/catalog/partition.c;h=6dab45f0edf8b1617d7239652fe36f113d30fd7a;hb=f0e44751d71
[2] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blobdiff;f=src/backend/catalog/partition.c;h=874e69d8d62e8e93164093e7352756ebfd0f69bc;hp=f54e1bdf3fb52cefed9b0d2fe7ab2a169231579d;hb=0563a3a8b5;hpb=0c2070cefa0e5d097b715c9a3b9b5499470019aa