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Re: Review: Patch to compute Max LSN of Data Pages

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Amit kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
Cc: Muhammad Usama <m.usama@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-08T04:14:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Amit kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com> writes:
> On Friday, December 07, 2012 7:43 PM Muhammad Usama wrote:
>> Although I am thinking why are you disallowing the absolute path of file. Any particular reason?

> The reason to disallow absolute path is that, we need to test on multiple platforms and to keep the scope little less.

This argument seems to me to be completely nuts.  What's wrong with an
absolute path?  Wouldn't you have to go out of your way to disallow it?

			regards, tom lane