Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs
Date
Msg-id 5899.1276138616@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Takahiro Itagaki
> <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> I found a term "InvalidXLogRecPtr" in 9.0 docs.
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-RECOVERY-INFO-TABLE
>> | ... then the return value will be InvalidXLogRecPtr (0/0).

> Maybe we should be returning NULL instead of 0/0.

+1 for using NULL instead of an artificially chosen value, for both of
those functions.
        regards, tom lane


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