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From: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Reshke <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 14:32:29 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM Melanie Plageman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > yikes, you are right about the "reason" member. Attached 0002 removes
> > it, and I'll go ahead and fix it in the back branches too.
>
> I think changing this in the back-branches is a super-bad idea. If you
> want, you can add a comment in the back-branches saying "oops, we
> shipped a field that isn't used for anything", but changing the struct
> definition is very likely to make 0 people happy and >0 people
> unhappy. On the other hand, changing this in master is a good idea and
> you should go ahead and do that before this creates any more
> confusion.

Yes, that makes 100% sense. It should have occurred to me. I've pushed
the commit to master. I didn't put an updated set of patches here in
case someone was already reviewing them, as nothing else has changed.

- Melanie





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