On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:31 AM vignesh C <vignes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:26 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:19:08AM +0530, vignesh C wrote: > > > I noticed that there are many header files being included which need > > > not be included. I have tried this in a few files and found the > > > compilation and regression to be working. I have attached the patch > > > for the files that I tried. I tried this in CentOS, I did not find > > > the header files to be platform specific. > > > Should we pursue this further and cleanup in all the files? > > > > Do you use a particular method here or just manual deduction after > > looking at each file individually? If this can be cleaned up a bit, I > > think that's welcome. The removal of headers is easily forgotten when > > moving code from one file to another... > > > Thanks Michael. > I'm writing some perl scripts to identify this. > The script will scan through all the files, make changes, > and verify.
If we can come up with some such tool, we might be able to integrate it with Thomas's patch tester [1] wherein it can apply the patch, verify if there are unnecessary includes in the patch and report the same. [1] - http://commitfest.cputube.org/ -- With Regards, Amit Kapila. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
