Re: [v9.2] DROP Reworks Part.0 - 'missing_ok' support of get_object_address

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-22T16:51:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié jun 22 08:56:02 -0400 2011:

> Another option might be to leave heap_openrv() and relation_openrv()
> alone and add a missing_ok argument to try_heap_openrv() and
> try_relation_openrv().  Passing true would give the same behavior as
> presently; passing false would make them behave like the non-try
> version.

That would be pretty weird, having two functions, one of them sometimes
doing the same thing as the other one.

I understand Noah's concern but I think your original proposal was saner
than both options presented so far.

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