Re: What to name the current heap after pluggable storage / what to rename?

Hi,

On 2018-12-19 14:21:29 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:17 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > Another would be to be aggressive in renaming, and deconflict by
> > renaming functions like heap_create[_with_catalog] etc to sound more
> > accurate. I think that has some appeal, because a lot of those names
> > aren't describing their tasks particularly well.
>
> I like that option.

I'd like to start doing that by moving the functions in the following
heapam.h block elsewhere:

/* in heap/heapam.c */
extern Relation relation_open(Oid relationId, LOCKMODE lockmode);
extern Relation try_relation_open(Oid relationId, LOCKMODE lockmode);
extern Relation relation_openrv(const RangeVar *relation, LOCKMODE lockmode);
extern Relation relation_openrv_extended(const RangeVar *relation,
LOCKMODE lockmode, bool missing_ok);
extern void relation_close(Relation relation, LOCKMODE lockmode);

extern Relation heap_open(Oid relationId, LOCKMODE lockmode);
extern Relation heap_openrv(const RangeVar *relation, LOCKMODE lockmode);
extern Relation heap_openrv_extended(const RangeVar *relation,
LOCKMODE lockmode, bool missing_ok);

ISTM that the first block would best belong into new files like
access/rel[ation].h and access/common/rel[ation].h. I think the second
set should be renamed to be table_open() (with backward compat
redirects, there's way way too many references) and should go into
access/table.h access/table/table.c alongside tableam.[ch], but I could
also see just putting them into relation.[ch].

Comments?

Greetings,

Andres Freund