Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename

From: Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename
Date: 2000-06-18 01:07:18
Message-ID: 394C20C6.9580A8A9@bitmead.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> > Also, you said before that an old relname (after rename) is worse than
> > none at all. I couldn't agree more.
>
> I'm not the one who wants relnames in the physical names ;-). However,
> this implementation mechanism will support either policy choice ---
> original relname in the filename, or just a numeric ID for the filename
> --- and that seems like a good sign to me.
>
> > Why not use OID.[SEGMENT.]VERSION for the physical relname (different
> > order possible)?

Unless VERSION is globally unique like an oid is, having RELNAME.VERSION
would be a problem if you created a table with the same name as a
recently renamed table.

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