ipig wrote:
> 2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?
> Since heap_open function needs the oid of the relation, how can I get
> those parameters for heap_open?
>
> Suppose that at the beginning, I only know the name of the relation,
> which functions I need to call?
You can create a RangeVar using makeRangeVar and call heap_openrv().
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