Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I just noticed that this patch

> Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
> of shared or nailed system catalogs.  This has two key benefits:

creates a new function pg_relation_filenode() that only uses the
syscache to fetch the relation's filenode, without locking it.  I wonder
if we could do the same in the pg_relation_size() function and friends,
to avoid having to grab a lock on the relation.

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