Re: [v9.2] DROP Reworks Part.0 - 'missing_ok' support of get_object_address

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 01:28:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > I agree with you. ?If we had a whole pile of options it might be worth
>> > having heap_openrv() and heap_openrv_extended() so as not to
>> > complicate the simple case, but since there's no forseeable need to
>> > add anything other than missing_ok, my gut is to just add it and call
>> > it good.
>>
>> On further review, my gut is having second thoughts.  This patch is an
>> awful lot smaller and easier to verify correctness if I just mess with
>> the "try" calls and not the regular ones; and it avoids both
>> back-patching hazards for us and hoops for third-party loadable
>> modules that are using the non-try versions of those functions to jump
>> through.
>
> +1.  (Note that the function header comments need a few more updates.)

Oh, good catch, thanks. Committed with some further comment changes.

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