Re: XLByte* usage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XLByte* usage
Date: 2012-12-17 18:39:17
Message-ID: 28838.1355769557@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> BTW, now that XLogRecPtr is uint64, can't we change the pd_lsn field
> to use the same type ?

No, at least not without breaking on-disk compatibility on little-endian
machines.

regards, tom lane

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