Re: [PATCH] PageGetTempPage cleanup

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala  writes:
>> I attach patch which cleans up code around PageGetTempPage. These changes were 
>> discussed here:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-08/msg00102.php
> 
> Applied with a minor change: instead of inventing
> 	Page PageGetTempPage(Page page, bool copy)
> I split it into two functions
> 	Page PageGetTempPage(Page page)
> 	Page PageGetTempPageCopy(Page page)
> I don't see any advantage to having the single function, because it
> doesn't seem like any calling code path would be likely to want both
> behaviors depending on some condition.  Moreover, the way you had it
> meant that we'd be replacing
> 	Page PageGetTempPage(Page page, Size specialSize);
> with
> 	Page PageGetTempPage(Page page, bool copy);
> which seems risky to me.  If someone failed to update code that was
> meant to call the old API, they'd get no warning about it --- at least
> not in any C compiler I'm familiar with.  Changing the number of
> arguments guarantees a compile error for un-updated code.

Agree.

Just a question you sometime argue that somebody should uses this interface for 
external module. Is there any clue which function is used and which not? Should 
we create something like core API description which will be stable?
Zdenek

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