Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Actually ... now that I look at it, isn't it completely bogus to be
>> using numeric for the result of pg_xlog_location_diff?
> rhaas=# select pg_xlog_location_diff('ffffffff/0', '0/0')::int8;
> ERROR: bigint out of range
Oh ... I see my mistake. I was looking at this:
/* * result = XLogFileSize * (xlogid1 - xlogid2) + xrecoff1 - xrecoff2 */
and confusing XLogFileSize with XLogSegSize. Not the best choice of
names.
regards, tom lane
