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this, add a 16-bit "flags" field to page headers by stealing some bits from pd_tli. We use one flag bit as a hint to indicate whether there are any unused line pointers; the remaining 15 are available for future use. This is a cut-down form of an idea proposed by Hiroki Kataoka in July 2005. At the time it was rejected because the original patch increased the size of page headers and it wasn't clear that the benefit outweighed the distributed cost. The flag-bit approach gets most of the benefit without requiring an increase in the page header size. Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
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2.6 KiB
C
59 lines
2.6 KiB
C
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*
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* catversion.h
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* "Catalog version number" for PostgreSQL.
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*
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* The catalog version number is used to flag incompatible changes in
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* the PostgreSQL system catalogs. Whenever anyone changes the format of
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* a system catalog relation, or adds, deletes, or modifies standard
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* catalog entries in such a way that an updated backend wouldn't work
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* with an old database (or vice versa), the catalog version number
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* should be changed. The version number stored in pg_control by initdb
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* is checked against the version number compiled into the backend at
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* startup time, so that a backend can refuse to run in an incompatible
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* database.
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*
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* The point of this feature is to provide a finer grain of compatibility
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* checking than is possible from looking at the major version number
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* stored in PG_VERSION. It shouldn't matter to end users, but during
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* development cycles we usually make quite a few incompatible changes
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* to the contents of the system catalogs, and we don't want to bump the
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* major version number for each one. What we can do instead is bump
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* this internal version number. This should save some grief for
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* developers who might otherwise waste time tracking down "bugs" that
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* are really just code-vs-database incompatibilities.
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*
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* The rule for developers is: if you commit a change that requires
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* an initdb, you should update the catalog version number (as well as
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* notifying the pghackers mailing list, which has been the informal
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* practice for a long time).
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*
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* The catalog version number is placed here since modifying files in
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* include/catalog is the most common kind of initdb-forcing change.
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* But it could be used to protect any kind of incompatible change in
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* database contents or layout, such as altering tuple headers.
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*
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*
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
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*
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* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h,v 1.389 2007/03/02 00:48:44 tgl Exp $
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*
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*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*/
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#ifndef CATVERSION_H
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#define CATVERSION_H
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/*
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* We could use anything we wanted for version numbers, but I recommend
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* following the "YYYYMMDDN" style often used for DNS zone serial numbers.
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* YYYYMMDD are the date of the change, and N is the number of the change
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* on that day. (Hopefully we'll never commit ten independent sets of
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* catalog changes on the same day...)
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*/
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/* yyyymmddN */
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#define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200703011
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#endif
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