On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, 16:14 Michael Paquier, <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:04:15PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote: > > As long as we provide a sensible default value (so I guess '0/0' to > > mean "no upper bound") and that we therefore don't have to manually > > specify an upper bound if we don't want one I'm fine with keeping the > > functions marked as STRICT. > > FWIW, using also InvalidXLogRecPtr as a shortcut to say "Don't fail, > just do the job" is fine by me. isn't '0/0' the same as InvalidXLogRecPtr? but my point is that we shouldn't require to spell it explicitly, just rely on the default value. Something like a FFF/FFFFFFFF should > just mean the same on a fresh cluster, still it gets risky the longer > the WAL is generated. > yeah, it would be handy to accept 'infinity' in that context. >