Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add pg_xlogdump contrib module

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-02-04 14:55:56 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Andres Freund wrote:
> > > On 2013-02-04 13:22:26 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> > > > +typedef struct RmgrDescData
> > > > +{
> > > > + void (*rm_desc) (StringInfo buf, uint8 xl_info, char *rec);
> > > > +} RmgrDescData;
> > > > +
> > > > +extern const RmgrDescData RmgrDescTable[];
> > > > +
> > >
> > > I think we would at least need to include rm_name here as well.
> >
> > Not rm_name (that would be duplicative), but a comment with the name of
> > each rmgr's name in its line should be sufficient.
>
> Maybe I am misunderstanding what you want to do, but xlogdump prints the
> name of the rmgr and allows to filter by it, how would we do that
> without rm_name?

Oh, I thought you wanted it for code documentation purposes only. Okay,
that makes sense. (Of course, we'd remove it from RmgrTable).

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