Re: Simplify the logic a bit (src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c)

From: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Simplify the logic a bit (src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c)
Date: 2025-02-14 12:13:38
Message-ID: CAEudQAoaHU-KxgW+e1Mp0c8=Ya4w3w_JN_oDDeLZDqnuVgRxcQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Álvaro.

Em qui., 13 de fev. de 2025 às 18:38, Álvaro Herrera <
alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> escreveu:

> On 2025-Feb-13, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Coverity complained about possible dereference null pointer
> > in *reindex_one_database* function.
> > That's not really true.
> > But the logic is unnecessarily complicated.
>
> Hmm, this code looks quite suspect, but I wonder if instead of (what
> looks more or less like) a straight revert of cc0e7ebd304a as you
> propose, a better fix wouldn't be to split get_parallel_object_list in
> two: get_parallel_table_list for the DATABASE and SCHEMA cases, and
> get_parallel_tabidx_list (or whatever) for the INDEX case. In the first
> case we just return a list of values, but in the latter case we also
> meddle with the input list which becomes an output list ...
>
Sure, I'll try to do it.

best regards,
Ranier Vilela

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