Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits
Date: 2022-07-05 21:02:37
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZfxMRfWW7X16TGWh1Q8taRtCb3hRTwWqY-4_XiQCYYKw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 4:33 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I thought about this comment from Robert
> > that's not quite the same as either of those things. For example, in
> > tableam.h we currently say "This callback needs to create a new
> > relation filenode for `rel`" and how should that be changed in this
> > new naming? We're not creating a new RelFileNumber - those would need
> > to be allocated, not created, as all the numbers in the universe exist
> > already. Neither are we creating a new locator; that sounds like it
> > means assembling it from pieces.
>
> I think that "This callback needs to create a new relation storage
> for `rel`" looks better.

I like the idea, but it would sound better to say "create new relation
storage" rather than "create a new relation storage."

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Robert Haas
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