Hi Nathan,

> This dates back to commit cc1965a, and I see some discussion about this
> function in the corresponding thread [0].  One thing I don't like about
> the patch is that we lose the comment about relying on the name to never be
> double-quoted.  IMHO that's worth retaining in some form.

Fair enough. Here is the corrected patch v2.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
From b7ac7079219451a37f02503d194a4caa48c68054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:28:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH v2] Remove make_temptable_name_n()

The named function is used in matview.c only once and doesn't do much. Replace
it with a simple psprintf() call.

Author: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TO3a5q2NKRsjdJ6sLf8isVe4aMaaX1-Hj2TdHdhFw8zRA%40mail.gmail.com
---
 src/backend/commands/matview.c | 35 +++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/matview.c b/src/backend/commands/matview.c
index 441de55ac24..00fed53268b 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/matview.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/matview.c
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ static void transientrel_shutdown(DestReceiver *self);
 static void transientrel_destroy(DestReceiver *self);
 static uint64 refresh_matview_datafill(DestReceiver *dest, Query *query,
 									   const char *queryString, bool is_create);
-static char *make_temptable_name_n(char *tempname, int n);
 static void refresh_by_match_merge(Oid matviewOid, Oid tempOid, Oid relowner,
 								   int save_sec_context);
 static void refresh_by_heap_swap(Oid matviewOid, Oid OIDNewHeap, char relpersistence);
@@ -556,28 +555,6 @@ transientrel_destroy(DestReceiver *self)
 	pfree(self);
 }
 
-
-/*
- * Given a qualified temporary table name, append an underscore followed by
- * the given integer, to make a new table name based on the old one.
- * The result is a palloc'd string.
- *
- * As coded, this would fail to make a valid SQL name if the given name were,
- * say, "FOO"."BAR".  Currently, the table name portion of the input will
- * never be double-quoted because it's of the form "pg_temp_NNN", cf
- * make_new_heap().  But we might have to work harder someday.
- */
-static char *
-make_temptable_name_n(char *tempname, int n)
-{
-	StringInfoData namebuf;
-
-	initStringInfo(&namebuf);
-	appendStringInfoString(&namebuf, tempname);
-	appendStringInfo(&namebuf, "_%d", n);
-	return namebuf.data;
-}
-
 /*
  * refresh_by_match_merge
  *
@@ -634,7 +611,17 @@ refresh_by_match_merge(Oid matviewOid, Oid tempOid, Oid relowner,
 	tempRel = table_open(tempOid, NoLock);
 	tempname = quote_qualified_identifier(get_namespace_name(RelationGetNamespace(tempRel)),
 										  RelationGetRelationName(tempRel));
-	diffname = make_temptable_name_n(tempname, 2);
+	/*
+	 * Create a name for the temporary diff table by appending an underscore
+	 * followed by the given integer to the qualified temporary table name.
+	 * The result is a palloc'd string.
+	 *
+	 * As coded, this would fail to make a valid SQL name if the given name were,
+	 * say, "FOO"."BAR".  Currently, the table name portion of the input will
+	 * never be double-quoted because it's of the form "pg_temp_NNN", cf
+	 * make_new_heap().  But we might have to work harder someday.
+	 */
+	diffname = psprintf("%s_%d", tempname, 2);
 
 	relnatts = RelationGetNumberOfAttributes(matviewRel);
 
-- 
2.43.0

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