Re: replication slot restart_lsn initialization

On 2015-07-07 06:41:55 -0700, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> There seems to be a misplaced not operator ! in that if statement, as
> well. That sucks :( The MacOS gcc binary is actually clang, and its output
> is too noisy [1], which is probably why I might have missed warning if any.

Which version of clang is it? With newer ones you can individually
disable nearly all of the warnings. I regularly use clang, and most of
the time it compiles master without warnings.

> > > pg_create_physical_replication_slot(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
> > > {
> > > Name name = PG_GETARG_NAME(0);
> > > + bool activate = PG_GETARG_BOOL(1);
> >
> > Don't like 'activate' much as a name. How about 'immediately_reserve'?
> >
>
> I still like 'activate, but okay. How about 'reserve_immediately' instead?

Activate is just utterly wrong. A slot isn't inactive before. And
'active' already is used for slots that are currently in use
(i.e. connected to).

> Also, do you want this name change just in the C code, or in the pg_proc
> and docs as well?

All.

- Andres