Ok, committed all the WAL format changes now.
On 19.06.2012 18:57, Robert Haas wrote:
Should we keep the old representation in the replication protocol messages?
That would make it simpler to write a client that works with different
server versions (like pg_receivexlog). Or, while we're at it, perhaps we
should mandate network-byte order for all the integer and XLogRecPtr fields
in the replication protocol. That would make it easier to write a client
that works across different architectures, in>= 9.3. The contents of the
WAL would of course be architecture-dependent, but it would be nice if
pg_receivexlog and similar tools could nevertheless be
architecture-independent.
I share Andres' question about how we're doing this already. I think
if we're going to break this, I'd rather do it in 9.3 than 5 years
from now. At this point it's just a minor annoyance, but it'll
probably get worse as people write more tools that understand WAL.
I didn't touch the replication protocol yet, but I think we should do it
some time during 9.3.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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