Tom Lane wrote:
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What is the argument against making relfilenodes globally unique by adding
the xid and epoch of the creating transaction to the filename?
1. Zero chance of ever backpatching. (I know I said I wasn't excited about
that, but it's still a strike against a proposed fix.)
2. Adds new fields to RelFileNode, which will be a major code change, and
possibly a noticeable performance hit (bigger hashtable keys).
3. Adds new columns to pg_class, which is a real PITA ...
4. Breaks oid2name and all similar code that knows about relfilenode.
Ah, Ok. I was under the impression that relfilenode in pg_class is a string of
some kind. In that case only GetNewRelFileNode would have needed patching...
But that is obviously not the case, as I realized now :-(
Thanks for setting me straight ;-)
regards, Florian Pflug
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