On 17.12.2012 11:04, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote:
On 16.12.2012 16:16, Andres Freund wrote:
Now that XLRecPtr's are plain 64bit integers what are we supposed to use
in code comparing and manipulating them? There already is plenty example
of both, but I would like new code to go into one direction not two...
I personally find direct comparisons/manipulations far easier to read
than the XLByte* equivalents.
I've still used XLByte* macros, but I agree that plain< => are easier to
read. +1 for using< => in new code.
Do we ever see us changing this from 64-bit integers to something else
? If so, a macro would be much better.
I don't see us changing it again any time soon. Maybe in 20 years time
people will start overflowing 2^64 bytes of WAL generated in the
lifetime of a database, but I don't think we need to start preparing for
that yet.
- Heikki
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