Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-08-26 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 07/13/2016 04:25 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Amit Kapila wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: Hence why not simplifying its interface and remove the force flag? One point to note is that the signature and usage of UpdateMinRecover

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-07-13 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 12 July 2016 at 23:49, Michael Paquier wrote: >> Hence why not simplifying its interface and remove the force flag? > > Is this change needed as part of a feature? If not, I see no reason for > change. > > If we all work towards meaningful

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-07-13 Thread Simon Riggs
On 12 July 2016 at 23:49, Michael Paquier wrote: > Hence why not simplifying its interface and remove the force flag? Is this change needed as part of a feature? If not, I see no reason for change. If we all work towards meaningful features the code can be cleaned up as we go. -- Simon Rigg

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-07-13 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Amit Kapila wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Michael Paquier > wrote: >> Hence why not simplifying its interface and remove the force flag? > > One point to note is that the signature and usage of > UpdateMinRecoveryPoint() is same as it was when it got i

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-07-13 Thread Amit Kapila
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: > Hi all, > > As of now UpdateMinRecoveryPoint() is using two arguments: > - lsn, to check if the minimum recovery point should be updated to that > - force, a boolean flag to decide if the update should be enforced or not. > However those tw

[HACKERS] Simplifying the interface of UpdateMinRecoveryPoint

2016-07-12 Thread Michael Paquier
Hi all, As of now UpdateMinRecoveryPoint() is using two arguments: - lsn, to check if the minimum recovery point should be updated to that - force, a boolean flag to decide if the update should be enforced or not. However those two arguments are correlated. If lsn is InvalidXlogRecPtr, the minimum