Re: xlog location arithmetic - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: xlog location arithmetic
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Msg-id 1331321008.23681.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: xlog location arithmetic  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: xlog location arithmetic
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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.



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