Re: why do we have rd_istemp? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: why do we have rd_istemp?
Date
Msg-id 18590.1275336732@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: why do we have rd_istemp?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Given "Relation rel", it looks to me like rel->rd_rel->relistemp will
>>> always give the same answer as rel->rd_istemp.  So why have both?
>> 
>> Might be historical --- relistemp is pretty new.

> Is this a TODO or something we want to clean up?

Doesn't strike me that it's worth the amount of code that would have to
change.  rd_istemp is known in a lot of places.  Replacing it with a
double indirection doesn't seem attractive anyway.
        regards, tom lane


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