Re: dfmgr additional ABI version fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: dfmgr additional ABI version fields
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Msg-id 3042924.1637333957@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: dfmgr additional ABI version fields  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:50:38PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Would it be reasonable to consider something similar for the control
>>> file, for the benefit of distributions that are not the same on disk?

> The catalog version already serves this purpose.

We already have fields in pg_control for that, and fields to check
endianness, maxalign, etc, ie the things that matter for data storage.
Perhaps there is a need for more such fields, but I don't see that
extension ABI questions are directly related.

            regards, tom lane



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