| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: | 2012-03-09 15:00:55 |
| Message-ID: | 28900.1331305255@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Why would it be useful to use pg_size_pretty on xlog locations?
> The point is that it would be useful to use it on the difference
> between two xlog locations,
Um, that is exactly the claim I was questioning. Why is that useful?
> but that is a numeric value, not int8, because of signedness issues.
See my followup --- this statement appears factually incorrect,
whatever you may feel about the usefulness issue.
regards, tom lane
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