Re: Timeline ID hexadecimal format

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 9:35 PM Sébastien Lardière
<sebastien@lardiere.net> wrote:
>
> On 27/01/2023 15:55, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 27.01.23 14:52, Sébastien Lardière wrote:
> >> The attached patch proposes to change the format of timelineid from
> >> %u to %X.
> >
> > I think your complaint has merit.  But note that if we did a change
> > like this, then log files or reports from different versions would
> > have different meaning without a visual difference, which is kind of
> > what you complained about in the first place.  At least we should do
> > something like 0x%X.
> >
> Hi,
>
> Here's the patch with the suggested format ; plus, I add some note in
> the documentation about recovery_target_timeline, because I don't get
> how strtoul(), with the special 0 base parameter can work without 0x
> prefix ; I suppose that nobody use it.
>
> I also change pg_controldata and the usage of this output by pg_upgrade.
> I let internal usages unchanded : content of backup manifest and content
> of history file.

The patch seems to have some special/unprintable characters in it. I
see a lot ^[[ in there. I can't read the patch because of that.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat