Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maxim Orlov <orlovmg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ilya Anfimov <ilan(at)tzirechnoy(dot)com>
Subject: Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)
Date: 2022-03-29 17:25:49
Message-ID: 220fab30-dff0-b055-f803-4338219f1021@enterprisedb.com
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On 29.03.22 15:09, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
>> I took another look at the patchset. Personally I don't think it will get much
>> better than it is now. I'm inclined to change the status of the CF entry to
>> "Ready for Committer" unless anyone disagrees.
>
>>> About v25-0002-Use-64-bit-format-to-output-XIDs.patch:
>>> I don't see the point of applying this now. It doesn't make PG15 any
>>> better. It's just a patch part of which we might need later.
>>
>> AFAICT, this patch provides no actual functionality change, so holding
>> it a bit for early in the PG16 cycle wouldn't lose anything.
>
> OK. As I understand we still have a consensus that v30-0001 (SLRU refactoring,
> not the XID formatting) is targeting PG15, so I changed the CF entry to
> "Ready for Committer" for this single patch. I rechecked it again on the
> current `master` branch without the other patches and it is OK. cfbot is happy
> with the patchset as well.

That isn't really what I meant. When I said

> At this point, I'm more concerned that code review is still finding
> bugs, and that we have no test coverage for any of this

this meant especially the SLRU refactoring patch.

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