| From: | "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Updating FSM on recovery |
| Date: | 2008-10-29 13:17:18 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070810290617rcdc4da4yc2cf88deae4b5ae3@mail.gmail.com |
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> Buffer ReadBuffer(Relation reln, BlockNumber blockNum);
> Buffer ReadBufferExt(Relation reln, ForkNumber forkNum, BlockNumber
> blockNum, BufferAccessStrategy strategy, ReadBufferMode mode);
> Buffer ReadBufferWithoutRelcache(RelFileNode rnode, bool isTemp, ForkNumber
> forkNum, BlockNumber blockNum, ReadBufferMode mode);
>
> Thoughts?
I'm not sure why we would abbreviate Extended to Ext when nothing else
in here is abbreviated. Seems needlessly inconsistent.
We may also want to rethink our approach to BufferAccessStrategy a
bit. Right now, we don't admit that
GetBufferAccessStrategy(BAS_NORMAL) just returns a NULL pointer - we
expect the caller to get that strategy and later call
FreeBufferAccessStrategy it just as if it were a real object.
Particularly in light of this API change, I think we should just give
up on that. Otherwise, a caller that wants to specify a fork number
or ReadBufferMode has to get and free an access strategy that doesn't
amount to anything. Perhaps it would be sufficient to do this:
#define NormalBufferAccessStrategy NULL
That way, it would be easy to grep for any place where we used this to
get around a useless pair of get/free calls if we ever need to go back
and make a normal buffer access strategy into a real object.
...Robert
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