Re: oldest/newestCommitTs output by pg_controldata

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: oldest/newestCommitTs output by pg_controldata
Date: 2015-12-28 17:46:13
Message-ID: 56817565.80509@joeconway.com
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On 12/28/2015 09:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>> Ok, but now next question -- should we just change the user visible
>> output to oldestCommitXID/newestCommitXID, or should we change the
>> variable name everywhere it appears in source as well? Looks like each
>> one appears about 25-30 times scattered across 9 or 10 files. Since they
>> are new in 9.5, if we're going to change them, I'd think we ought to do
>> it now or never.
>
> The name is just as misleading at the source-code level, maybe more so
> since they're all just numbers in C. +1 for changing it everywhere
> before somebody makes a mistake based on the incorrect names.

Ok, I'm on it now

Joe

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