Re: protocol-level wait-for-LSN

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: protocol-level wait-for-LSN
Date: 2024-11-04 09:47:27
Message-ID: f7af9c63-41c3-446f-8488-48535326224c@eisentraut.org
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On 30.10.24 10:03, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 at 16:51, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>> Thoughts?
>
> + snprintf(xloc, sizeof(xloc), "%X/%X",
> LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(logptr))
> + pq_sendstring(&buf, xloc);
>
> nit: I feel that sending the LSN as a string seems unnecessarily
> wasteful of bytes. I'd rather send it as its binary representation.

My thinking here was: This protocol is also used by things that are not
PostgreSQL. They might have other representations for "position to wait
for". I don't know, but it's something to think about.

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