Re: pgsql: Avoid tricky race condition recording XLOG_HINT

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Resulting code completely changes layout of XLOG_HINT WAL records, but
> this isn't even beta code, so this is a low impact change.

> src/include/catalog/catversion.h       |    2 +-

Just for the record, the right way to handle that kind of change is to
change XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, not catversion.  A database's catalog version
might not be available to code that is inspecting WAL files and would
like to know what format it should expect.

            regards, tom lane