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Re: XLByte* usage

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-12-17T18:39:17Z
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Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> BTW, now that XLogRecPtr is uint64, can't we change the pd_lsn field
> to use the same type ?

No, at least not without breaking on-disk compatibility on little-endian
machines.

			regards, tom lane