Re: RangeVarGetRelid() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: RangeVarGetRelid()
Date
Msg-id 20111118141238.GD4166@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: RangeVarGetRelid()  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: RangeVarGetRelid()
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 08:58:30AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > I count 1/25 callers overriding nowait and 3/25 overriding missing_ok. ?So, it's
> > looking like a less-common override than the callback function will come to be.
> 
> Yeah, you're probably right.  However, I think there's another good
> reason not to use that signature: in 9.1, the function had a signature
> of (RangeVar *, bool).  If in 9.2 it ends up with a signature of
> (RangeVar *, LOCKMODE), you won't get a compiler warning (at least not
> on my system) if you invoke it as RangeVarGetRelid(rel, true).  You'll
> just get silently (and subtly) different behavior: an error if the
> relataion doesn't exist (instead of no error), and an AccessShareLock
> if it does (instead of no lock).  I think we're best off making sure
> that any old-style usage of RangeVarGetRelid() that may be out there
> in third-party code fails to compile.

Good call.


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