Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits

On 2022-Jul-28, Robert Haas wrote:

> 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.

Of course.

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