In an ancient ancestor of this code, the postmaster assigned IDs to IO workers. Now it tracks them in an unordered array and doesn't know their IDs, so it might be confusing to readers that it still referred to their indexes as IDs. No change in behavior, just variable name and error message cleanup. Back-patch to 18. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BwbaZZ9Nwc_bTopm4f-7vDmCwLk80uKDHj9mq%2BUp0E%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.