Re: ALTER TYPE 2: skip already-provable no-work rewrites

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:54:19PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's not quite so good for translators, I think.
> >
> > Another option is that we could just say "relation" (table, foreign
> > table, etc...) or "type". ?We use the word relation as a more generic
> > version of table in a few other places.

Seems fine.

> Or how about passing an ObjectType?  Then we could specify
> OBJECT_TABLE, OBJECT_FOREIGN_TABLE, or OBJECT_TYPE.

Could this be done without a several-line blob of code at each call site to
determine the answer?  If and only if so, this sounds better.