Re: adding new pages bulky way

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:52:57PM +0300, Victor Y. Yegorov wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [07.06.2005 07:59]:
> > Why bother?  Just write each page when you need to --- there's no law
> > that says you must use P_NEW.
> 
> This means 2 things:
> 1) I cannot mix P_NEW and exact-number ReadBuffer() calls;

Huh, why?  You need to grab the relation extension block
(LockRelationForExtension in CVS tip).

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