Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block

"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> Is it necessary to get the relation path name from the relation name/oid etc
> each time ?
> Is it bad to keep the relation path name in pg_class(or another relation) ?

Hmm, we could maybe do that for user relations, but it obviously would
not work for pg_class itself. I'm a little worried about trying to do
it for the other critical system relations, too. We'd want to keep the
relation's pathname in its relcache entry, so any system relation that
is read while setting up a relcache entry has to have a fixed path that
can be determined without a relcache entry.

Perhaps it would be good enough to say that all system relations live in
the database's primary directory, and only user relations have pathnames
specified in their pg_class entries. Renaming a system table would be
a Really Bad Idea anyway ;-)

regards, tom lane