Re: Printing LSN made easy

From: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Printing LSN made easy
Date: 2021-01-21 10:30:14
Message-ID: CAGEoWWRtV82uB9uraC6B8++=JTShRSnQFTSnK2WDrnpQEpyqrQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:53 PM Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2021-01-20 08:50, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > Thanks for looking into this. I would like to keep both the LSN_FORMAT
> > and LSN_FORMAT_ARGS but with a note that the first can not be used in
> > elog() or in messages which require localization. We have many other
> > places doing snprintf() and such stuff, which can use LSN_FORMAT. If we
> > do so, the functions to output string representation will not be needed
> > so they can be removed.
>
> Then you'd end up with half the code doing this and half the code doing
> that. That doesn't sound very attractive. It's not like "%X/%X" is
> hard to type.
>

:). That's true. I thought LSN_FORMAT would document the string
representation of an LSN. But anyway I am fine with this as well.

>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> 2ndQuadrant, an EDB company
> https://www.2ndquadrant.com/
>

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh

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