pg_waldump: Preparatory refactoring for tar archive WAL decoding.

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Commit: f8a0cd26717063b99d846b693b416187ab56d67b
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2026-03-20T19:31:35Z
pg_waldump: Preparatory refactoring for tar archive WAL decoding.

Several refactoring steps in preparation for adding tar archive WAL
decoding support to pg_waldump:

- Move XLogDumpPrivate and related declarations into a new pg_waldump.h
  header, allowing a second source file to share them.

- Factor out required_read_len() so the read-size calculation can be
  reused for both regular WAL files and tar-archived WAL.

- Move the WAL segment size variable into XLogDumpPrivate and rename it
  to segsize, making it accessible to the archive streamer code.

Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b94bqdWN3h2J-PzzzQ2Npbwct5ZQHggn_QoYGhC2rn-=WQ@mail.gmail.com

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src/bin/pg_waldump/pg_waldump.c modified +44 −34
src/bin/pg_waldump/pg_waldump.h added +26 −0

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