Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
To: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Maxim Orlov <orlovmg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)
Date: 2024-07-12 09:44:54
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TPGYD=neghnRyJn__YR53g40ZdU+xoHxp0QUH6wtN9ZvQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

> A comment about v3-0001.
>
> - * If true, use long segment filenames formed from lower 48 bits of the
> - * segment number, e.g. pg_xact/000000001234. Otherwise, use short
> - * filenames formed from lower 16 bits of the segment number e.g.
> - * pg_xact/1234.
> + * If true, use long segment filenames. Use short filenames otherwise.
> + * See SlruFileName().
>
> We're losing some details here even if SlruFileName() has some
> explanations, because one would need to read through the snprintf's
> 04X to know that short file names include 4 characters. I'm OK to
> mention SlruFileName() rather than duplicate the knowledge here, but
> SlruFileName() should also be updated to mention the same level of
> details with some examples of file names.

Fair enough. Here is the updated patchset.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Attachment Content-Type Size
v4-0001-Refactor-the-comments-about-formatting-SLRU-segme.patch application/x-patch 2.8 KB
v4-0002-Use-int64-for-page-numbers-in-clog.c-async.c.patch application/x-patch 3.4 KB

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