Re: Assorted fixes related to WAL files (was: Use XLogFromFileName() in pg_resetwal to parse position from WAL file)

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:01 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. 0001 replaces explicit WAL file parsing code with
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> > 2. 0002 replaces MAXPGPATH with MAXFNAMELEN for WAL file names.
>
> Looks reasonable, too.  I don't find other instances of the same mistake.

Thanks for reviewing.

> > 3. 0003 replaces WAL file name calculation with XLogFileNameById() in
> > pg_upgrade/controldata.c to be consistent across the code base. Note
> > that this requires us to change the nextxlogfile size from hard-coded
> > 25 bytes to MAXFNAMELEN (64 bytes).
>
> I'm not sure I like this. In other places where XLogFileNameById() is
> used, the buffer is known to store longer strings so MAXFNAMELEN is
> reasonable.  But we don't need to add useless 39 bytes here.
> Therefore, even if I wanted to change it, I would replace it with
> "XLOG_FNAME_LEN + 1".

I'm fine with doing either of these things. Let's hear from others.

I've added a CF entry - https://commitfest.postgresql.org/40/3927/

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