On 02/10/2024 14:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I was fiddling a bit with making some Page-related APIs const-proof,
> which might involve changing something like "Page p" to "const PageData
> *p", but I was surprised that a type PageData exists but it's an
> unrelated type local to generic_xlog.c.
Good find
> This patch renames that type to a more specific name XLogPageData. This
> makes room for possibly adding another PageData type with the earlier
> meaning, but that's not done here. But I think even without that, this
> patch is a useful little cleanup that makes the code more consistent and
> clear.
+1 for renaming, but -1 on XLogPageData. That sounds like a WAL page,
see XLogPageHeaderData for example. I'd suggest GenericXLogPageData or
just GenericPerPageData or something.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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