Re: Comment - uniqueness of relfilenode - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Antonin Houska
Subject Re: Comment - uniqueness of relfilenode
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Msg-id 53182505.5090300@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Comment - uniqueness of relfilenode  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Comment - uniqueness of relfilenode  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 03/06/2014 04:33 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:48:52PM +0100, Antonin Houska wrote:
>>> On 11/10/2013 12:57 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Antonin Houska
>>>> <antonin.houska@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> catalog/catalog.c:GetNewRelFileNode() and its calls indicate that the
>>>>> following change makes sense:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/src/include/storage/relfilenode.h
>>>>> b/src/include/storage/relfilenode.h
>>>>> index 75f897f..7190974 100644
>>>>> --- a/src/include/storage/relfilenode.h
>>>>> +++ b/src/include/storage/relfilenode.h
>>>>> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef enum ForkNumber
>>>>>   * relNode identifies the specific relation.  relNode corresponds to
>>>>>   * pg_class.relfilenode (NOT pg_class.oid, because we need to be able
>>>>>   * to assign new physical files to relations in some situations).
>>>>> - * Notice that relNode is only unique within a particular database.
>>>>> + * Notice that relNode is only unique within a particular tablespace.
>>>>>   *
>>>>>   * Note: spcNode must be GLOBALTABLESPACE_OID if and only if dbNode is
>>>>>   * zero.  We support shared relations only in the "global" tablespace.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> // Antonin Houska (Tony)
>>>>
>>>> Technically speaking, I think it's only guaranteed to be unique with a
>>>> database-tablespace combination.  In other words, the same OID can be
>>>> reused as a relfilenode if *either* of those two values differs.
>>>
>>> You're right. I missed the fact that Postgres (unlike another DBMS that
>>> I worked with) allows for tablespace to be shared across databases.
>>
>> I have update the C comment:
>>
>>         <  * Notice that relNode is only unique within a particular database.
>>         ---
>>         >  * Notice that relNode is only unique within a particular tablespace.
> 
> Yep. But the new text is no more correct than the old text.  Did you
> read what I wrote upthread?

Perhaps "... unique within a particular (tablespace, database)
combination." ?

// Tony




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