On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 4:44 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> While working on a patch, I met a function with the signature of:
>
> > DropRelFileLocatorBuffers(SMgrRelation smgr_reln, ForkNumber *forkNum,
> > int nforks, BlockNumber *firstDelBlock)
>
> It was DropRelFileNodeBuffers(), which means "Drop buffers for a
> RelFileNode", where RelFileNode means a storage or a (set of) file(s).
> In that sense, "Drop buffers for a RelFile*Locator*" sounds a bit off
> to me. Isn't it better change the name? RelFileLocator doesn't look
> to be fit here.
>
> "DropRelFileBuffers" works better at least for me.. If it does, some
> other functions need the same amendment.
Have you looked at the commit message for
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=b0a55e43299c4ea2a9a8c757f9c26352407d0ccc
?
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