Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >>> Answering myself here: the filesize for the "frontend only" part is >>> about 2k on this system. > >> Long meeting, time for coding.. :-) Here's a rough patch. Is this about >> what you had in mind? > > Hm, this seems to make the namespace pollution problem worse not better, > because of de-staticizing so many functions. I guess we could stick pg_ > prefixes on all of them. That's a bit ugly; anybody have a better idea?
Not really. > It might be that it'd be better to push a couple more of the simple > path-munging functions (like join_path_components) over into the new > file, so as to have a more logical division of responsibilities. > In my mind the two key areas here are "path syntax knowledge" and > "extracting absolute paths from environmental information". The second > part seems to be the one that doesn't belong on the frontend side. What would be the gain there? To be able to re-static-ify for example skip_drive? Or just a nicer division? We should probably also consider moving get_home_path() over to the frontend one, and get rid of the copy that's in fe-connect.c. //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
