Re: Show various offset arrays for heap WAL records

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 12:44 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> This is still listed in the July commitfest; is there some work remaining?

I don't think so; not in the scope of the original patch series from
Melanie, at least.

> You moved the comment from rmgrdesc_utils.c into rmgrdesc_utils.h, but I
> don't think that was a good idea. Our usual convention is to have the
> function comment in the .c file, not at the declaration in the header
> file. When I want to know what a function does, I jump to the .c file,
> and might miss the comment in the header entirely.

I think that this was a gray area. It wasn't particularly obvious
where this would go. At least not to me.

> Let's add a src/backend/access/rmgrdesc/README file. We don't currently
> have any explanation anywhere why the rmgr desc functions are in a
> separate directory. The README would be a good place to explain that,
> and to have the formatting guidelines. See attached.

I agree that it's better this way, though.

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Peter Geoghegan