Re: Timeline ID hexadecimal format

On 31/01/2023 12:26, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 9:35 PM Sébastien Lardière
>  wrote:
>> On 27/01/2023 15:55, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> On 27.01.23 14:52, Sébastien Lardière wrote:
>>>> The attached patch proposes to change the format of timelineid from
>>>> %u to %X.
>>> I think your complaint has merit.  But note that if we did a change
>>> like this, then log files or reports from different versions would
>>> have different meaning without a visual difference, which is kind of
>>> what you complained about in the first place.  At least we should do
>>> something like 0x%X.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's the patch with the suggested format ; plus, I add some note in
>> the documentation about recovery_target_timeline, because I don't get
>> how strtoul(), with the special 0 base parameter can work without 0x
>> prefix ; I suppose that nobody use it.
>>
>> I also change pg_controldata and the usage of this output by pg_upgrade.
>> I let internal usages unchanded : content of backup manifest and content
>> of history file.
> The patch seems to have some special/unprintable characters in it. I
> see a lot ^[[ in there. I can't read the patch because of that.
>
Sorry for that, it was the --color from git diff, it's fixed, I hope, 
thank you

regards,

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Sébastien