Re: Production block comparison facility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2014-07-24 20:35:04 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> - FPW/page consistency check is done after converting them to hex.
> This is done only this way to facilitate viewing the page diffs with a
> debugger. A best method would be to perform the checks using
> MASK_MARKER (which should be moved to bufmask.h btw). It may be better
> to put all this hex magic within a WAL_DEBUG ifdef.

Can't you just do "p/x whatever" in the debugger to display things in
hex?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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