Re: walprotocol.h vs frontends

On 15.08.2011 18:54, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:53, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net>  writes:
>>> I also ran into a similar problem with some WAL macro definitions that
>>> are in xlog_internal.h. I've moved them to xlogdefs.h in the attached
>>> xlog.diff file. Does that seem ok as well, or should I move them
>>> somewhere else?
>>
>> I don't like the idea of exposing those to frontends, either.  What do
>> you actually *need* out of that, and why?
>
> PrevLogSeg - which also brings in XLogSegsPerFile.
> XLogFileName
> XLogFileSize - which brings in XLogSegsPerFile and XLogSegSize
>
> PrevLogSeg should be self explaining, as should xlogfilename.
>
> XLogFileSize is required by XLByteAdvance() which is already in
> xlogdefs.h - so xlogdefs.h actually has a hidden dependency on
> xlog_internal.h here today.
>
> I can certainly separate those out, but it seemed more clean to move
> the whole block they were in.

Perhaps we should change the protocol so that it explicitly says which 
file the streamed piece of WAL belongs to. That way a client could write 
it to the correct file without knowing about all those macros.

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