Re: Printing LSN made easy

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:53 PM Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> On 2021-01-20 08:50, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > Thanks for looking into this. I would like to keep both the LSN_FORMAT
> > and LSN_FORMAT_ARGS but with a note that the first can not be used in
> > elog() or in messages which require localization. We have many other
> > places doing snprintf() and such stuff, which can use LSN_FORMAT. If we
> > do so, the functions to output string representation will not be needed
> > so they can be removed.
>
> Then you'd end up with half the code doing this and half the code doing
> that.  That doesn't sound very attractive.  It's not like "%X/%X" is
> hard to type.
>

:). That's true. I thought LSN_FORMAT would document the string
representation of an LSN. But anyway I am fine with this as well.


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> Peter Eisentraut
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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh