Re: should we add a XLogRecPtr/LSN SQL type? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: should we add a XLogRecPtr/LSN SQL type?
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Msg-id 27965.1391476222@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: should we add a XLogRecPtr/LSN SQL type?  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: should we add a XLogRecPtr/LSN SQL type?  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> Please find attached a patch implementing lsn as a datatype, based on
> the one Robert wrote a couple of years ago.

> Patch contains regression tests as well as a bit of documentation.
> Perhaps this is too late for 9.4, so if there are no objections I'll
> simply add this patch to the next commit fest in June for 9.5.

I may have lost count, but aren't a bunch of the affected functions new
in 9.4?  If so, there's a good argument to be made that we should get
this in now, rather than waiting and having an API change for those
functions in 9.5.
        regards, tom lane



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