Re: Fix and improve allocation formulas

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Dec-11, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > a) changing over everything at once is worth the backpatch hazard and review
> > pain
>
> The other issue with these giant patches is that they cause many largish
> patches waiting in the commitfest process to require rebases, which are
> sometimes not trivial to do. Also, all the Postgres forks will
> require tedious merges later on.
>
> I have my part of blame for having committed the mass change to
> XLogRecPtrIsValid in a2b02293bc65. I'm starting to regret that now.

I think the bigger issue is that these patches bypass the normal
workflow of implementing changes in Postgres --- specifically, asking
about Desirability first:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
Desirability -> Design -> Implement -> Test -> Review -> Commit

It would have been much cleaner to discuss the desirability of this
change on its own.

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