Re: [v9.2] DROP statement reworks

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [v9.2] DROP statement reworks
Date: 2011-10-05 14:07:42
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaTSizAJBz8q=43dVjx2MRPmEga9-ASqva1Nt8UUFeHpg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
> The get_relation_address() follows the logic in RemoveRelations() to be
> eliminated by this patch, so it is not a code duplication.
> The reason why we didn't consolidate this routine with get_object_address()
> was that remove-index requires locks on the table which owns the index to
> be removed, and it was ugly to add an ad-hoc if-block on the routine.

Yeah, that's a problem that's been in the back of my mind for a bit
now, but I haven't come up with a good solution. I don't think
RemoveRelations() is the only place we have this problem, either.

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Robert Haas
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