Re: [PATCHES] Forcing current WAL file to be archived - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So let's fix pg_xlogfile_name_offset() to have two OUT parameters
>> instead of returning a smushed-together string.

> I'll do this, but I'm conscious that this is a cosmetic change.

Well, it's cosmetic, but it's also an API change, which means that this
is our only opportunity to get it right.  Once these functions are in a
release it will be too hard to change them.

            regards, tom lane