On Jul 13, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > I would rather get rid of this %X/%X notation. I know we have all grown > to like it, but it's always been a workaround. We're now making the > move to simplify this whole business by saying, the WAL location is an > unsigned 64-bit number -- which everyone can understand -- but then why > is it printed in some funny format?
We should take care that whatever format we pick can be easily matched to a WAL file name. So a 64-bit number printed as 16 hex digits would perhaps be OK, but a 64-bit number printed in base 10 would be a large usability regression. Personally, I'm not convinced we should change anything at all. It's not that easy to visually parse a string of many digits; a little punctuation in the middle is not a bad thing. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
