On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 at 12:59, John H <johnhyvr@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> Splitting the logs from $PGDATA is definitely better. The question is whether >> it's worth implementing this directly in core or if a prominent note in the >> documentation would suffice. >> > > I can work on the documentation update as a separate patch if folks > think this is worthwhile. > >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Exactly! It's confusing that getFileType() returns file_content_type_t >> instead of file_type_t. >> > > Ah yes that is confusing, updated in patch. > >> For v5 patch: >> >> 1. >> We could simply use the global WalSegSz variable within decide_file_action(), >> eliminating the need to pass wal_segsz_bytes as an argument. >> > > Good point. > >> 2. >> For last_common_segno, we could implement it similarly to WalSegSz, avoiding a >> signature change for decide_file_actions() and decide_file_action(). I'm not >> insisting on this approach, however. >> > > I made it a global as well, and had to include access/xlog_internal.h > in pg_rewind.h but I don't feel strongly about it either way. >
