Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch
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Msg-id AANLkTikL-EF+p0YYzMi4e3d52zVYE9RTUWvAd=dqPpaj@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The above scenario is only a risk if you suppose that dropping a
>>> relation that lacks physical storage will nonetheless result in
>>> attempted unlink()s.  I think that that's probably not the case;
>
>> Why?  How would we know that it didn't have physical storage prior to
>> attempting the unlinks?
>
> From the relkind.

Oh, sure, I agree with you in that specific case.

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Robert Haas
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