Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings

Hi!

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 2:06 PM Aleksander Alekseev
<aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >> > I think what's done in patch 0001 is just an extension of existing
> >> > logic and moving it into separate function.
> >>
> >> That's right. I'm arguing that now is a good time to clean it up.
> >>
> >> I won't insist if Alexander prefers to commit it as it is, though. But
> >> let's at least explain how this works in the comment, instead of the XXX.
> >
> > I agree with you that would be good to add a comment instead of XXX and commit.
>
> +1
>
> One could argue that getting rid of short filenames entirely in the
> long term (i.e. always long_segment_names == true) could be a better
> strategy. Maybe it's not but I believe this should be discussed
> separately from the patchset under question.

Heikki, thank you for catching this.

This mess with file names formats already lasts quite long. I don't
think we should hurry unifying this as long as we're anyway going to
change that in near future.

Please, find the revised patchset with relevant comment.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov