Re: CLASSOID patch

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Chris Bitmead writes:
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> > Attached is a first attempt at implementing the classoid feature.
>
> I'm wondering what other people think about the naming. Firstly, it's my
> feeling that TABLEOID would be more in line with the general conventions.

I was thinking this myself today. Mainly because I wonder if in the
future there may be support for more than one table implementing a
particular class type. On the other hand the oid is a reference to the
pg_class table. Maybe pg_class should be renamed pg_table? Anyway, my
current thinking is that tableoid is better.

The general naming conventions in postgres are a bit disturbing. Some
places refer to classes, some to tables, some to relations. One day it
should all be reconciled :-).

> Secondly, maybe we ought to make the name less susceptible to collision by
> choosing a something like _CLASSOID (or whatever).

Only if oid becomes _oid and ctid becomes _ctid. I don't think it's
worth it myself.

> > It works!
>
> Great! :)