Re: API stability [was: pgsql: Fix possible recovery trouble if TRUNCATE overlaps a checkpoint.]

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 11:19:15AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Here are patches for master and v14 to do things this way. Comments?

> Thanks for the patches.  They look correct.  For ~14, I'd rather avoid
> the code duplication done by GetVirtualXIDsDelayingChkptEnd() and
> HaveVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt() that could be avoided with an extra
> bool argument to the existing routine.

Isn't adding another argument an API break?  (If there's any outside
code calling GetVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt, which it seems like there
might be.)

            regards, tom lane