Re: RangeVarGetRelid()

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue nov 17 17:51:06 -0300 2011:

> The trouble is, I'm not quite sure how to do that. It seems like
> permissions checks and lock-the-heap-for-this-index should be done in
> RangeVarGetRelid() just after the block that says "if (retry)" and
> just before the block that calls LockRelationOid(). That way, if we
> end up deciding we need to retry the name lookup, we'll retry all that
> other stuff as well, which is exactly right. The difficulty is that
> different callers have different needs for what should go in that
> space, to the degree that I'm a bit nervous about continuing to add
> arguments to that function to satisfy what everybody needs. Maybe we
> could make most of them Booleans and pass an "int flags" argument.
> Another option would be to add a "callback" argument to that function
> that would be called at that point with the relation, relId, and
> oldRelId as arguments. Alternatively, we could just resign ourselves
> to duplicating the loop in this function into each place in the code
> that has a special-purpose requirement, but the function is complex
> enough to make that a pretty unappealing prospect.

I'm for the callback.

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