| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits |
| Date: | 2022-07-29 09:36:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20220729093633.7wdhyxhik4smnzg5@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2022-Jul-28, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > I do wonder why do we keep relfilenodes limited to decimal digits. Why
> > not use hex digits? Then we know the limit is 14 chars, as in
> > 0x00FFFFFFFFFFFFFF in the MAX_RELFILENUMBER definition.
>
> Hmm, but surely we want the error messages to be printed using the
> same format that we use for the actual filenames.
Of course.
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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Most hackers will be perfectly comfortable conceptualizing users as entropy
sources, so let's move on." (Nathaniel Smith)
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