On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:58 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2019-08-22 09:51:22 +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > > We can not know the complete size of the record even by reading the > > header because we have a payload that is variable part and payload > > length are stored in the payload header which again can be at random > > offset. > > Wait, but that's just purely self inflicted damage, no? The initial > length just needs to include the payload. And all this is not an issue > anymore? > Actually, we store the undo length only at the end of the record and that is for traversing the transaction's undo record chain during bulk fetch. Ac such in the beginning of the record we don't have the undo length. We do have uur_info but that just tell us which all optional header are included in the record.
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