Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block

> Looked like it was going to be very simple: the RelationGetRelationName
> and RelationGetPhysicalRelationName macros encapsulate access to the
> (relation)->rd_rel->relname structure member pretty effectively (thanks
> to Bruce's temp. relation work, I presume)

Yes.

> As a first crack, I decided to use the oid for the filename, just because
> it simplified the chamges to the Macro, and there was already an oidout()
> builtin that'd do the palloc for me ;-)
> 
> <some time latter...>
> 
> Well, ... it is, as they say, a Small Matter of Programming. I now know
> a lot more about the bootstrap process, and the relcache, I can tell you!
> 
> Most problems where code that used RelationGetPhysicalRelationName
> when they it should use RelationGetRelationName. In several cases,
> the code assumed RelationGetPhysicalRelationName handed them a
> pointer to rd_rel->relname, which they copy into! I substituted
> RelationGetRelationName for all these cases.

Please send in a patch on those if they need to be corrected, OK?

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