Hi, On 2025-12-01 11:25:13 -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote: > This file has over 22,000 lines and is too large to be included in GitHub's > code search results [0]. It appears to have been given its current form in > 2002 by commit 71dc300. Previously, it was named command.c, which dates > back to the 80s. Is it time to split it into a few different files, > similar to what was done to copy.c in 2020 by commit c532d15? > > After briefly skimming through it, some areas that seem like they could > potentially be moved out are partitions, constraints, permission checks, > inheritance, foreign keys, column expressions, table rewriting, attribute > merging, TRUNCATE, and CREATE TABLE. This is far from a concrete proposal, > but I first wanted to gauge interest in $SUBJECT.
Seems reasonable, however I think that splitting all or most of the pieces you listed into their own files would end up being pointlessly granular.... Greetings, Andres Freund
