On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> 1. Use a 64-bit segment number, instead of the log/seg combination. And >> don't waste the last segment on each logical 4 GB log file. The concept >> of a "logical log file" is now completely gone. XLogRecPtr is unchanged, >> but it should now be understood as a plain 64-bit value, just split into >> two 32-bit integers for historical reasons. On disk, this means that >> there will be log files ending in FF, those were skipped before. > Whats the reason for keeping that awkward split now? There aren't that many > users of xlogid/xcrecoff and many of those would be better served by using > helper macros.
I wondered that, too. There may be a good reason for keeping it split up that way, but we at least oughta think about it a bit. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
