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Re: Change RangeVarGetRelidExtended() to take flags argument?

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-03-06T00:57:44Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> One wrinkle in that plan is that it'd not be trivial to discern whether
> a lock couldn't be acquired or whether the object vanished.  I don't
> really have good idea how to tackle that yet.

Do we really care which case applies?

But having to mess with the semantics of RangeVarGetRelidExtended seems
like a good reason not to go down this path...

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Add SKIP_LOCKED option to RangeVarGetRelidExtended().

  2. Combine options for RangeVarGetRelidExtended() into a flags argument.