Re: Deduplicate min restart_lsn calculation code

On 2022-Jan-06, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems like the two functions ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredLSN and
> ReplicationSlotsComputeLogicalRestartLSN more or less does the same
> thing which makes me optimize (saving 40 LOC) it as attached. I'm
> pretty much okay if it gets rejected on the grounds that it creates a
> lot of diff with the older versions and the new API may not look
> nicer, still I want to give it a try.
>
> Thoughts?

Hmm, it seems sensible to me. But I would not have the second boolean
argument in the new function, and instead have the caller save the
return value in a local variable to do the XLogSetReplicationSlotMinimumLSN
step separately. Then the new function API is not so strange.

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