Re: a modest improvement to get_object_address()

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-09T14:54:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Try to acquire relation locks in RangeVarGetRelid.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to propose the attached patch, which changes
> get_object_address() in a manner similar to what we did in
> RangeVarGetRelid() in commit 4240e429d0c2d889d0cda23c618f94e12c13ade7.

I would think you need to drop the now-useless lock, and I sure hope
that RangeVarGetRelid does likewise.

			regards, tom lane