Re: Change RangeVarGetRelidExtended() to take flags argument?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change RangeVarGetRelidExtended() to take flags argument?
Date: 2018-03-06 00:57:44
Message-ID: 30527.1520297864@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> One wrinkle in that plan is that it'd not be trivial to discern whether
> a lock couldn't be acquired or whether the object vanished. I don't
> really have good idea how to tackle that yet.

Do we really care which case applies?

But having to mess with the semantics of RangeVarGetRelidExtended seems
like a good reason not to go down this path...

regards, tom lane

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