Re:

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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().

Or just look in the code to see how other code is calling heap_open().

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