Re: xlog file naming - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: xlog file naming
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Msg-id 4E6E6529.7030800@enterprisedb.com
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In response to xlog file naming  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 12.09.2011 21:36, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> PS2: While we're discussing the cleanup of xlog.c, someone daring could
> replace XLogRecPtr by a plain uint64 and possibly save hundres of lines
> of code and eliminate a lot of the above confusion.

One problem with that is that it would break binary 
backwards-compatibility on little-endian systems.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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