Store table oid and tuple's tid in tuple slots directly.
After the introduction of tuple table slots all table AMs need to support returning the table oid of the tuple stored in a slot created by said AM. It does not make sense to re-implement that in every AM, therefore move handling of table OIDs into the TupleTableSlot structure itself. It's possible that we, at a later date, might want to get rid of HeapTupleData.t_tableOid entirely, but doing so before the abstractions for table AMs are integrated turns out to be too hard, so delay that for now. Similarly, every AM needs to support the concept of a tuple identifier (tid / item pointer) for its tuples. It's quite possible that we'll generalize the exact form of a tid at a future point (to allow for things like index organized tables), but for now many parts of the code know about tids, so there's not much point in abstracting tids away. Therefore also move into slot (rather than providing API to set/get the tid associated with the tuple in a slot). Once table AM includes insert/updating/deleting tuples, the responsibility to set the correct tid after such an action will move into that. After that change, code doing such modifications, should not have to deal with HeapTuples directly anymore. Author: Andres Freund, Haribabu Kommi and Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
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