On 2019-Jul-22, Julien Rouhaud wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> > simple_string_list_append(&tables, optarg); > > + tbl_count++; > > break; > > The number of items in a simple list is not counted, and vacuumdb does > > the same thing to count objects. What do you think about extending > > simple lists to track the number of items stored? > > I considered this, but it would require to adapt all code that declare > SimpleStringList stack variable (vacuumdb.c, clusterdb.c, > createuser.c, pg_dumpall.c and pg_dump.c), so it looked like too much > trouble to avoid 2 local variables here and 1 in vacuumdb.c. I don't > have a strong opinion here, so I can go for it if you prefer. Can we use List for this instead? -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services