Re: handling of heap rewrites in logical decoding

On 21 March 2018 at 21:20, Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 3/21/18 03:08, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Why was relrewrite / Anum_pg_class_relrewrite inserted at position 28,
> > not appended to pg_class?
> >
> > I don't see how it'd cause any harm, I'm just curious about the
> rationale.
>
> Adding it at the end would not be appropriate, since those are
> variable-length fields. So I added it close to other fields of similar
> purpose.
>

Right, that makes sense. You're renumbering attnos anyway, so you might as
well put it somewhere logical.

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