I wrote: > Hm. Currently sizeof(struct ControlFileData) = 296, at least on my > machine. Letting it grow past 512 would be problematic. It's hard > to see getting to that any time soon, though; we don't add fields > there often.
I wonder if it'd be worth the trouble to stick something like this into xlog.c: /* * For reliability's sake, it's critical that pg_control updates * be atomic writes. That generally means the active data can't * be more than one disk sector, which is 512 bytes on common * hardware. Be very careful about raising this limit. */ StaticAssertStmt(sizeof(ControlFileData) <= 512, "pg_control is too large for atomic disk writes"); regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers