Move syncscan.c?

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-23T01:30:39Z
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Hi,

It's a bit odd that syncscan.c is used by both heapam.c and tableam.c,
and provides a generic block-synchronization mechanism that other
table AMs might want to use too, but it lives under
src/backend/access/heap.  It doesn't actually do anything heap
specific (beyond being block-oriented), and it's weird that tableam.c
has to include heapam.h.

Perhaps we should move the .c file under src/backend/access/table, as attached.

I suppose it's remotely possible that someone might invent
physical-order index scans, and once you have those you might sync
scans of those too, and then even table would be too specific, but
that may be a bit far fetched.

Commits

  1. Move syncscan.c to src/backend/access/common.