On 2019-08-18 16:17, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> I'm just curious to better understand the naming convention behind wal
> files, because I've seen on a system of mine that the wals created
> were:
>
> 000000050000020E000000FF
> 000000050000020F00000000
>
> while I was expecting 20E0x100.
You are in principle correct. This naming system is a historical
accident. The actual LSN associated with the first file is
0000020EFF000000
and so the next one is naturally
0000020F00000000
The reason the zeroes are in there comes from a time when PostgreSQL
didn't fully support 64-bit integers, and the LSNs and the files were
tracked internally as pairs of 32-bit integers.
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