Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata

On 14.09.26 09:08, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 08:41:59AM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand why we care that we hardcode that Oid8 is the
>> same as uint64. It's never been a problem that Oid is the same as uin32 ...
>
> For me, the reason is greppability of oid8 information as the
> variables printed in the strings may not refer to variables declared
> in the code.

I don't understand what this means. Do you mean you want to grep for
where an oid8 value is being printed? I mean, that just won't work. We
don't accommodate that in the code for anything else in place of "oid8".

I think the symbol OID8_FORMAT should be purged from the code. Its
presence is just going to cause confusion, with people using it in
incorrect ways, and inviting more XXX_FORMAT symbols to be added. We
have just been working on getting rid of these after all.