Re: xlog location arithmetic

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: xlog location arithmetic
Date: 2011-12-23 16:15:07
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob1kiVeH13Z4jVRZCMnK2ZZshZd-encd1_oS4Yb9JzZ3w@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Even if there are several, what exact advantage does a datatype offer
>>> over representing LSN values as numerics?  It seems to me to be adding
>>> complication and extra code (I/O converters at least) for very little
>>> gain.
>
>> I guess I'm just constitutionally averse to labeling things as "text"
>> when they really aren't.
>
> Er ... text?  I thought the proposal was to use numeric.

The proposal is to make a function that takes a text argument (which
is really an LSN, but we choose to represent it as text) and returns
numeric.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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