On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 10:49:17AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> Andres, what do you think about this idea? I wonder if you just
> momentarily forgot about temporary relations when coding
> RelidByRelfilenumber -- because for that function to give well-defined
> answers with temporary relations included, it would need the backend
> ID as an additional argument.
No idea what Andres thinks, but seeing that pg_filenode_relation()
uses in input a tablespace OID and a filenode OID while ignoring the
prefix that would be used for a temp relation path (with a 't' and the
backend number), it is clear that the current function is not suited
to make the difference between temporary and persistent relations as
we'd need to have a priority order to choose one over the other. And
that may not lead to the correct choice.
Ignoring temporary relations entirely makes sense: one cannot get a
regclass from only a tablespace and a relfilenode, the persistence, as
well as a backend ID would also be required. I've not checked the
patch in details, but it's to say that the idea to cut temporary
relations sounds rather right here.
--
Michael
