Re: [HACKERS] Are pg_control contents really variable-length?

[Vadim Mikheev]

> In xlog.c, the declaration of struct ControlFileData says:
> 
>     /*
>      * MORE DATA FOLLOWS AT THE END OF THIS STRUCTURE - locations of data
>      * dirs
>      */
> 
> Is this comment accurate?  I don't see any sign in the code of placing
> extra data after the declared structure.  If you're planning to do it
> in future, I think it would be a bad idea.  I'd prefer to see all the

That was my thought but as you see nothing was done for it, so
feel free to change anything you want there.

Vadim