Re: [Refactor]Avoid to handle FORCE_NOT_NULL/FORCE_NULL options when COPY TO

From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: zmlpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Refactor]Avoid to handle FORCE_NOT_NULL/FORCE_NULL options when COPY TO
Date: 2022-07-27 06:37:40
Message-ID: CAMbWs4-szteszfsO=PBSb2cizZqO6D1Gr7f-18-aD0c=LS1m6g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:55 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> ProcessCopyOptions previously rejects force_quote_all for COPY FROM
> and copyfrom.c is not even conscious of the option (that is, even no
> assertion on it). The two options are rejected for COPY TO by the same
> function so it seems like a thinko of the commit. Getting rid of the
> code would be good in the view of code coverage and maintenance.

Yeah, ProcessCopyOptions() does have the check for force_notnull and
force_null whether it is using COPY FROM and whether it is in CSV mode.
So the codes in copyto.c processing force_notnull/force_null are
actually dead codes.

> On the otherhand I wonder if it is good that we have assertions on the
> option values.

Agree. Assertions would be better.

Thanks
Richard

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