On 2021-Apr-29, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > I'd do it like this. Note I removed an if/else block in addition to
> > your changes.
>
> > I couldn't convince myself that this is worth pushing though; either we
> > push it to all branches (which seems unwarranted) or we create
> > back-patching hazards.
>
> Yeah ... an advantage of the if/else coding is that it'd likely be
> simple to extend to cover additional statement types, should we ever
> wish to do that. The rendering you have here is nice and compact,
> but it would not scale up well.
That makes sense. But that part is not in Amul's patch -- he was only
on about removing the is_foreign_table Boolean. If I remove the if/else
block change, does the rest of the patch looks something we'd want to
have? I kinda agree that the redundant variable is "ugly". Is it worth
removing? My hunch is no.
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