On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:56:26AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> --- a/src/include/storage/fd.h
> +++ b/src/include/storage/fd.h
> @@ -43,15 +43,11 @@
> #ifndef FD_H
> #define FD_H
>
> +#ifndef FRONTEND
> +
> #include <dirent.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
>
> Ugh. So you need this part because pg_rewind's filemap.c includes
> fd.h, and pg_rewind also needs file_utils.h. This is not the fault of
> your patch, but this does not make the situation better, either.. It
> looks like we need to think harder about this layer. An improvement
> would be to split file_utils.c so as its frontend-only code is moved
> to OBJS_FRONTEND in a new file with a new header? It should be OK to
> keep DataDirSyncMethod in file_utils.h as long as the split is clean.
I'm hoping there's a simpler path forward here. pg_rewind only needs the
following lines from fd.h:
/* Filename components */
#define PG_TEMP_FILES_DIR "pgsql_tmp"
#define PG_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "pgsql_tmp"
Maybe we could move these to file_utils.h instead. WDYT?
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Nathan Bossart
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