Re: Change RangeVarGetRelidExtended() to take flags argument?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change RangeVarGetRelidExtended() to take flags argument?
Date: 2018-03-06 01:21:11
Message-ID: 20180306012111.6wgbpmsjyylz4365@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-03-06 10:17:49 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 05:06:59PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Yea, that's a concern. OTOH, it doesn't seem nice to grow duplicates of
> > similar code. It'd not be too hard to move RangeVarGetRelidExtended()
> > code into RangeVarGetRelidInternal() and add
> > RangeVarGetRelidTryLock(). Not sure if that's any better. Or just add
> > RangeVarGetRelidExtended2() :)
>
> FWIW, it would have been nice to switch RangeVarGetRelidExtended

What exactly do you mean with the paste tense here?

> so as it handles a set of uint8 flags as one of its arguments.

Right, that's what I was proposing. Although I'd just go for uint32,
there's no benefit in uint8 here.

> Avoiding a new flavor of RangevarGet would be also nice, now
> RangeVarGetRelidExtended() is likely popular enough in extensions that
> much things would break.

I can't follow?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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