Re: remove unused "caller" arg from stringToQualifiedNameList

On 6/25/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > This function seems to have an argument that is no longer used (probably
> > > leftover from when it used to report an error message?).
> >
> > Yeah, I recall having left the argument in place because it seemed like
> > we might want it again someday.  But that was for 7.4 which was awhile
> > ago.  There's probably not a strong argument to keep it, but on the
> > other hand is there a strong argument to remove it?
>
> Other than removing cruft, nope, I don't see any ...
>
> In any case, this is an exported symbol so maybe it's not a good idea to
> mess with it.  OTOH I checked PL/R and PL/php and neither uses it, so
> this may not be a problem at all.
>

FWIW, we remove the second argument in textToQualifiedNameList() two
years ago so i think this is just finishing what we already started,
IMHO anyway
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-05/msg00318.php

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