| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [v9.2] DROP Reworks Part.0 - 'missing_ok' support of get_object_address |
| Date: | 2011-06-22 16:51:18 |
| Message-ID: | 1308761379-sup-6825@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié jun 22 08:56:02 -0400 2011:
> Another option might be to leave heap_openrv() and relation_openrv()
> alone and add a missing_ok argument to try_heap_openrv() and
> try_relation_openrv(). Passing true would give the same behavior as
> presently; passing false would make them behave like the non-try
> version.
That would be pretty weird, having two functions, one of them sometimes
doing the same thing as the other one.
I understand Noah's concern but I think your original proposal was saner
than both options presented so far.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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