On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:55 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > > I notice that heapdesc.c outputs the field latestRemovedXid as > "remxid". But why? What sense is there in changing the name for output > by tools like pg_waldump, which are intrinsically internals focussed?
Not sure but it has been "remxid" from the beginning. See efc16ea5206. > Does anyone have any objections to my changing the details within > heapdesc.c on master, so that pg_waldump will use struct field names? > It doesn't seem necessary to change the output that has spaces instead > of an underscore, or something like that. It just seems worth removing > gratuitous inconsistencies, such as this one. +1 for changing heapdesc.c on master. It's not only readable but also consistent with other *desc showing the field named latestRemovedXid. For instance, nbtdesc.c has: case XLOG_BTREE_REUSE_PAGE: { xl_btree_reuse_page *xlrec = (xl_btree_reuse_page *) rec; appendStringInfo(buf, "rel %u/%u/%u; latestRemovedXid %u", xlrec->node.spcNode, xlrec->node.dbNode, xlrec->node.relNode, xlrec->latestRemovedXid); break; } Regards, -- Masahiko Sawada EnterpriseDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/