Re: DropRelFileLocatorBuffers

At Thu, 7 Jul 2022 21:13:59 -0400, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote in 
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 8:22 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
> <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > Yes if it is "RelFileLocator when we're talking about all the things
> > that are needed to locate a relation's files on disk,". I read this as
> > RelFileLocator is a kind of pointer to files.  I thought RelFileNode
> > as a pointer as well as the storage itself.  The difference of the two
> > for me could be analogized as the difference between "DropFileBuffers"
> > and "DropFileNameBuffers".  I think the latter is usually spelled as
> > "DropBuffersByFileNames" or such.
> >
> > Though, I don't want to keep fighting any further if others don't feel
> > it uneasy ;)
> 
> I wouldn't mind if we took "Locator" out of the name of that function
> and just called it DropRelFileBuffers or DropRelationBuffers or
> something. That would be shorter, and maybe more intuitive.

Thanks. Will propose that.

> I wasn't quite able to understand whether your original question was
> prompted by having missed the commit in question, or whether you
> disagreed with it, so that's why I asked whether you had seen the
> commit message.

The commit message is very helpful to understand the aim of the patch.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center