Remove get_attidentity()

All existing uses can get this information more easily from the
relation descriptor, so the detour through the syscache is not
necessary.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c

@@ -5917,6 +5917,7 @@ static ObjectAddress
 ATExecDropNotNull(Relation rel, const char *colName, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 {
 	HeapTuple	tuple;
+	Form_pg_attribute attTup;
 	AttrNumber	attnum;
 	Relation	attr_rel;
 	List	   *indexoidlist;
@@ -5929,14 +5930,13 @@ ATExecDropNotNull(Relation rel, const char *colName, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 	attr_rel = heap_open(AttributeRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
 
 	tuple = SearchSysCacheCopyAttName(RelationGetRelid(rel), colName);
-
 	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN),
 				 errmsg("column \"%s\" of relation \"%s\" does not exist",
 						colName, RelationGetRelationName(rel))));
-
+	attTup = (Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple);
-	attnum = ((Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple))->attnum;
+	attnum = attTup->attnum;
 
 	/* Prevent them from altering a system attribute */
 	if (attnum <= 0)
@@ -5945,7 +5945,7 @@ ATExecDropNotNull(Relation rel, const char *colName, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 				 errmsg("cannot alter system column \"%s\"",
 						colName)));
 
-	if (get_attidentity(RelationGetRelid(rel), attnum))
+	if (attTup->attidentity)
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
 				 errmsg("column \"%s\" of relation \"%s\" is an identity column",
@@ -6014,9 +6014,9 @@ ATExecDropNotNull(Relation rel, const char *colName, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 	/*
 	 * Okay, actually perform the catalog change ... if needed
 	 */
-	if (((Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple))->attnotnull)
+	if (attTup->attnotnull)
 	{
-		((Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tuple))->attnotnull = false;
+		attTup->attnotnull = false;
 
 		CatalogTupleUpdate(attr_rel, &tuple->t_self, tuple);
 
@@ -6128,6 +6128,7 @@ static ObjectAddress
 ATExecColumnDefault(Relation rel, const char *colName,
 					Node *newDefault, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 {
+	TupleDesc	tupdesc = RelationGetDescr(rel);
 	AttrNumber	attnum;
 	ObjectAddress address;
 
@@ -6148,7 +6149,7 @@ ATExecColumnDefault(Relation rel, const char *colName,
 				 errmsg("cannot alter system column \"%s\"",
 						colName)));
 
-	if (get_attidentity(RelationGetRelid(rel), attnum))
+	if (TupleDescAttr(tupdesc, attnum - 1)->attidentity)
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
 				 errmsg("column \"%s\" of relation \"%s\" is an identity column",

src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c

@@ -2919,6 +2919,7 @@ transformAlterTableStmt(Oid relid, AlterTableStmt *stmt,
 						const char *queryString)
 {
 	Relation	rel;
+	TupleDesc	tupdesc;
 	ParseState *pstate;
 	CreateStmtContext cxt;
 	List	   *result;
@@ -2938,6 +2939,7 @@ transformAlterTableStmt(Oid relid, AlterTableStmt *stmt,
 
 	/* Caller is responsible for locking the relation */
 	rel = relation_open(relid, NoLock);
+	tupdesc = RelationGetDescr(rel);
 
 	/* Set up pstate */
 	pstate = make_parsestate(NULL);
@@ -3067,7 +3069,8 @@ transformAlterTableStmt(Oid relid, AlterTableStmt *stmt,
 					 * if attribute not found, something will error about it
 					 * later
 					 */
-					if (attnum != InvalidAttrNumber && get_attidentity(relid, attnum))
+					if (attnum != InvalidAttrNumber &&
+						TupleDescAttr(tupdesc, attnum - 1)->attidentity)
 					{
 						Oid			seq_relid = getOwnedSequence(relid, attnum);
 						Oid			typeOid = typenameTypeId(pstate, def->typeName);

src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c

@@ -821,38 +821,6 @@ get_attnum(Oid relid, const char *attname)
 		return InvalidAttrNumber;
 }
 
-/*
- * get_attidentity
- *
- *		Given the relation id and the attribute name,
- *		return the "attidentity" field from the attribute relation.
- *
- *		Returns '\0' if not found.
- *
- *		Since no identity is represented by '\0', this can also be used as a
- *		Boolean test.
- */
-char
-get_attidentity(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum)
-{
-	HeapTuple	tp;
-
-	tp = SearchSysCache2(ATTNUM,
-						 ObjectIdGetDatum(relid),
-						 Int16GetDatum(attnum));
-	if (HeapTupleIsValid(tp))
-	{
-		Form_pg_attribute att_tup = (Form_pg_attribute) GETSTRUCT(tp);
-		char		result;
-
-		result = att_tup->attidentity;
-		ReleaseSysCache(tp);
-		return result;
-	}
-	else
-		return '\0';
-}
-
 /*
  * get_atttype
  *

src/include/utils/lsyscache.h

@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ extern Oid get_opfamily_proc(Oid opfamily, Oid lefttype, Oid righttype,
 				  int16 procnum);
 extern char *get_attname(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum, bool missing_ok);
 extern AttrNumber get_attnum(Oid relid, const char *attname);
-extern char get_attidentity(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum);
 extern Oid	get_atttype(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum);
 extern void get_atttypetypmodcoll(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum,
 					  Oid *typid, int32 *typmod, Oid *collid);