Re: [HACKERS] reverse file descriptor to a file name...

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >
> > Oops...I must be using that wrong...I'm getting:
> >
> > NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend: The Postmaster has informed me
> > that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted
> > shared memory. I have rolled back the current transaction and am
> > going to terminate your database system connection and exit.
> > Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
> >
> >
> > relname is of type NameData ... NameData is a struct, so shouldn't
> > it be:
> >
> > Relation->rd_rel->relname->data
> >
> > But, NameData only has one component, data...why make it a struct?
>
> Yep, you are right. They make is a struct so they can pass it around
> by-value, rather than the normal pointer by-reference for normal arrays.

Well, that would explain *that* problem :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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