On fre, 2012-03-09 at 18:13 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > and confusing XLogFileSize with XLogSegSize. Not the best choice of
> > names.
>
> Yeah, the use of XLogFile to mean something other than, well a file in
> the xlog, is greatly annoying.. I guess we could change it, but it
> goes pretty deep in the system so it's not a small change...
>
The whole thing was built around the lack of 64 bit integers. If we bit
the bullet and changed the whole thing to be just a single 64-bit
counter, we could probably delete thousands of lines of code.