Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits
Date
Msg-id 202602251713.b75colqoticz@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits  (Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>)
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On 2026-Feb-25, Maxim Orlov wrote:

> Something of this kind?

Looks vaguely reasonable, without looking too much into the details.
I would prefer to have the callback do the errmsg() directly, so that
SlruReportIOError() can do something like

        case SLRU_OPEN_FAILED:
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode_for_file_access(),
                     SlruCtl->errmsg_for_io_error(whatever),
                     errdetail("Could not open file \"%s\": %m.", path)));
            break;

and the callback is something like

static int
xact_errmsg_for_io_error(const void *opaque_data)
{
   TransactionId xid;

   xid = opaque_data ? (*(TransactionId *) opaque_data) : InvalidTransactionId;
   return errmsg("could not access status of transaction %u", xid);
}

We have various errdetail() routines of this kind.

Alternatively, maybe we could report in errmsg() the file operation that
failed, and the XID details etc as part of an error_context_stack
callback.  The error reporting style we're using here is perhaps not
well adapted to the times.

> Should we start a new thread?

I think so, yeah.

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