Re: a modest improvement to get_object_address()

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I would think you need to drop the now-useless lock, and I sure hope
>>> that RangeVarGetRelid does likewise.
>
>> It doesn't currently.  The now-useless lock doesn't really hurt
>> anything, aside from taking up space in the lock table.
>
> Well, there are corner cases where the object OID gets reused during
> the lifetime of the transaction, and then the lock *does* do something
> (and what it does would be bad).  But taking up extra space in the
> finite-size lock table is sufficient reason IMO to drop the lock.
> It's not like these are performance-critical code paths.

OK.

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