On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Agreed. As an alternative we could just have a single - probably longer
> than NAMEDATALEN - string to identify replication progress and rely on
> the users of the facility to build the identifier automatically
> themselves using components that are helpful in their system.
I tend to feel like a generic identifier would be better. I'm not
sure why something like a UUID wouldn't be enough, though.
Arbitrary-length identifiers will be bad for performance, and 128 bits
ought to be enough for anyone.
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