relfilelocator.h

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * relfilelocator.h
 *    Physical access information for relations.
 *
 *
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
 *
 * src/include/storage/relfilelocator.h
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#ifndef RELFILELOCATOR_H
#define RELFILELOCATOR_H
 
#include "common/relpath.h"
#include "storage/backendid.h"
 
/*
 * RelFileLocator must provide all that we need to know to physically access
 * a relation, with the exception of the backend ID, which can be provided
 * separately. Note, however, that a "physical" relation is comprised of
 * multiple files on the filesystem, as each fork is stored as a separate
 * file, and each fork can be divided into multiple segments. See md.c.
 *
 * spcOid identifies the tablespace of the relation.  It corresponds to
 * pg_tablespace.oid.
 *
 * dbOid identifies the database of the relation.  It is zero for
 * "shared" relations (those common to all databases of a cluster).
 * Nonzero dbOid values correspond to pg_database.oid.
 *
 * relNumber identifies the specific relation.  relNumber corresponds to
 * pg_class.relfilenode (NOT pg_class.oid, because we need to be able
 * to assign new physical files to relations in some situations).
 * Notice that relNumber is only unique within a database in a particular
 * tablespace.
 *
 * Note: spcOid must be GLOBALTABLESPACE_OID if and only if dbOid is
 * zero.  We support shared relations only in the "global" tablespace.
 *
 * Note: in pg_class we allow reltablespace == 0 to denote that the
 * relation is stored in its database's "default" tablespace (as
 * identified by pg_database.dattablespace).  However this shorthand
 * is NOT allowed in RelFileLocator structs --- the real tablespace ID
 * must be supplied when setting spcOid.
 *
 * Note: in pg_class, relfilenode can be zero to denote that the relation
 * is a "mapped" relation, whose current true filenode number is available
 * from relmapper.c.  Again, this case is NOT allowed in RelFileLocators.
 *
 * Note: various places use RelFileLocator in hashtable keys.  Therefore,
 * there *must not* be any unused padding bytes in this struct.  That
 * should be safe as long as all the fields are of type Oid.
 */
typedef struct RelFileLocator
{
    Oid         spcOid;         /* tablespace */
    Oid         dbOid;          /* database */
    RelFileNumber relNumber;    /* relation */
} RelFileLocator;
 
/*
 * Augmenting a relfilelocator with the backend ID provides all the information
 * we need to locate the physical storage.  The backend ID is InvalidBackendId
 * for regular relations (those accessible to more than one backend), or the
 * owning backend's ID for backend-local relations.  Backend-local relations
 * are always transient and removed in case of a database crash; they are
 * never WAL-logged or fsync'd.
 */
typedef struct RelFileLocatorBackend
{
    RelFileLocator locator;
    BackendId   backend;
} RelFileLocatorBackend;
 
#define RelFileLocatorBackendIsTemp(rlocator) \
    ((rlocator).backend != InvalidBackendId)
 
/*
 * Note: RelFileLocatorEquals and RelFileLocatorBackendEquals compare relNumber
 * first since that is most likely to be different in two unequal
 * RelFileLocators.  It is probably redundant to compare spcOid if the other
 * fields are found equal, but do it anyway to be sure.  Likewise for checking
 * the backend ID in RelFileLocatorBackendEquals.
 */
#define RelFileLocatorEquals(locator1, locator2) \
    ((locator1).relNumber == (locator2).relNumber && \
     (locator1).dbOid == (locator2).dbOid && \
     (locator1).spcOid == (locator2).spcOid)
 
#define RelFileLocatorBackendEquals(locator1, locator2) \
    ((locator1).locator.relNumber == (locator2).locator.relNumber && \
     (locator1).locator.dbOid == (locator2).locator.dbOid && \
     (locator1).backend == (locator2).backend && \
     (locator1).locator.spcOid == (locator2).locator.spcOid)
 
#endif                          /* RELFILELOCATOR_H */