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Heikki Linnakangas authored
The continuation record only contained one field, xl_rem_len, so it makes things simpler to just include it in the WAL page header. This wastes four bytes on pages that don't begin with a continuation from previos page, plus four bytes on every page, because of padding. The motivation of this is to make it easier to calculate how much space a WAL record needs. Before this patch, it depended on how many page boundaries the record crosses. The motivation of that, in turn, is to separate the allocation of space in the WAL from the copying of the record data to the allocated space. Keeping the calculation of space required simple helps to keep the critical section of allocating the space from WAL short. But that's not included in this patch yet. Bump WAL version number again, as this is an incompatible change.
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