On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, thanks, I have applied that one to all stable branches, except I > didn't add the judgemental comment about XLogRecPtrIsInvalid().
I'm rather late to the party here, but for what it's worth, I don't really think this was a good idea. Anyone who wants to write out-of-core code that works in the back-branches must still write it the old way, or it will potentially fail on older minor releases. Over the alternative actually chosen, I would have preferred (a) not doing this project at all or (b) making a hard switch in master to use the new macro everywhere and remove the old one, while leaving the back-branches unchanged or (c) dropping the use of the macro altogether, in that order of preference. That sad, I'm not arguing for a revert. My basic position is that this wasn't worth the switching cost, not that it was intrinsically a bad idea. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
