On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> I do wonder why do we keep relfilenodes limited to decimal digits. Why
> not use hex digits? Then we know the limit is 14 chars, as in
> 0x00FFFFFFFFFFFFFF in the MAX_RELFILENUMBER definition.
Hmm, but surely we want the error messages to be printed using the
same format that we use for the actual filenames. We could make the
filenames use hex characters too, but I'm not wild about changing
user-visible details like that.
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Robert Haas
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