Re: logical changeset generation v4

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>
>> [09] Adjust all *Satisfies routines to take a HeapTuple instead of a HeapTupleHeader
>>
>> For timetravel access to the catalog we need to be able to lookup (cmin,
>> cmax) pairs of catalog rows when were 'inside' that TX. This patch just
>> adapts the signature of the *Satisfies routines to expect a HeapTuple
>> instead of a HeapTupleHeader. The amount of changes for that is fairly
>> low as the HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility macro already expected the
>> former.
>>
>> It also makes sure the HeapTuple fields are setup in the few places that
>> didn't already do so.
>
> I had a look at this part. Running the regression tests unveiled a case
> where the tableOid wasn't being set (and thus caused an assertion to
> fail), so I added that. I also noticed that the additions to
> pruneheap.c are sometimes filling a tuple before it's strictly
> necessary, leading to wasted work. Moved those too.
>
> Looks good to me as attached.

I took a quick look at this and am just curious why we're adding the
requirement that t_tableOid has to be initialized?

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