Re: WIP: getting rid of the pg_database flat file

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> > (BTW I assume there is going to be an index on OID
> > available on pg_database after the shared relcache initialization?)
>
> Yeah. That's not in the patch I sent last night, but the OID index has
> to become nailed too in order to allow removing FindMyDatabaseByOid.
> However, I'm not sure that the AV launcher could touch it --- were
> you thinking that would be important?

No, that's for the workers. The launcher needs all the entries anyway.
(I'm assuming it will be able to check visibility of tuples, correct?
Hmm, it will need to run transactions in order to do that ...)

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