Re: Merge compact/non compact commits, make aborts dynamically sized

On 2015-02-25 12:10:42 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-02-24 20:51:42 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Regarding XactEmitCommitRecord and XactEmitAbortRecord, I wonder if you
> > could pass an xl_xact_parsed/abort_commit struct to them, instead of the
> > individual fields? You could then also avoid the static variables inside it,
> > passing pointers to that struct to XLogRegisterData() instead.
> 
> Hm, that's an idea. And rename it to xaxt_commit/abort_data?

So, I just tried this, and it doesn't really seem to come out as a net
positive. More code at the callsites and more complex code in the *Emit*
routines. It's impossible to use [FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER] employing
datatypes in xact_commit_data while emitting because there obviously are
several chunks needing it. And avoid using it would make for a slightly
less clear format.

So unless you feel strongly about it, don't think so, I'll keep the
statics, even if they're not particularly pretty.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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