On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 15:51 David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote:

> On 6/9/23 19:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> writes:
> >> Thank you, this was very helpful. I am able to get the expected result
> >> now with:
> >
> >> /* We only care about tables/views and can ignore subqueries, etc. */
> >> if (!(rte->rtekind == RTE_RELATION ||
> >>        (rte->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY && OidIsValid(rte->relid))))
> >>       continue;
> >
> > Right, that matches places like add_rtes_to_flat_rtable().
>
> Good to have confirmation of that, thanks!
>
> >> One thing, though, rte->relkind is not set for views, so I still need to
> >> call get_rel_relkind(rte->relid). Not a big deal, but do you think it
> >> would make sense to set rte->relkind for views?
> >
> > If you see "rte->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY && OidIsValid(rte->relid)",
> > it's dead certain that relid refers to a view, so you could just wire
> > in that knowledge.
>
> Yeah, that's a good trick. Even so, I wonder why relkind is not set when
> relid is set?


I too have been thinking that setting relkind might be a good idea, even if
only as a crosscheck that only view relations can look like that in the
range table.

> --
Thanks, Amit Langote
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