On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 5:01 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2022-Apr-12, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 3:45 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > We don't have a lock on the relation, so if it gets dropped
> > > concurrently, it won't behave sanely. For example, get_rel_name() will
> > > return NULL which seems incorrect to me.
>
> Oh, oops ... a trap for the unwary? Anyway, yes, we can disregard the
> entry when get_rel_name returns null. Amended patch attached.
>
> > > I am not sure about this as well because you will instead do a RELOID
> > > cache lookup even when there is no row filter or column list.
>
> I guess my assumption is that the pg_class cache is typically more
> populated than other relcaches, but that's unsubstantiated. I'm not
> sure if we have any way to tell which one is the more common case.
> Anyway, let's do it the way you already had it.
>
> > It seems to me that we have a similar coding pattern in ExecGrant_Relation().
>
> Not sure what you mean?
>
I mean that it fetches the tuple from the RELOID cache and then
performs relkind and other checks similar to what we are doing. I
think it could also have used get_rel_relkind() but probably not done
because it doesn't have a lock on the relation.
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
