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Re: Make description of heap records more talkative for flags

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-15T17:44:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2018-Apr-23, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Now, frankly, this being mostly a debugging tool, I think it would be
> better to have the output as complete as we can.  Otherwise, when
> debugging some hideous problem we find ourselves patching the tool
> during an emergency in order to figure out what is going on.  For this,
> I would rather patch the earliest version we conveniently can.  We
> cannot patch pg10 because it's already out there, but not so for pg11.

RMT, I would like your opinion on whether to apply a fix for this
problem to pg11 or not.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Add flag values in WAL description to all heap records

  2. Fix incorrect routine name in xlog_heapam.h