Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
> <mark.cave-ayl...@siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
>> ... In terms of location, I think utils/misc is a reasonable
>> place for it to live since I see it as analogous to the hash table
>> implementation, i.e. it's a template RB-Tree implementation designed to
>> be used as required throughout the codebase. backend/access seems to be
>> the home of index AMs only.
> Not really. access/common has things in it like reloptions.c and
> printtup.c, which are clearly not index AMs.
That may be, but it's not a place for random generic data structures,
at least not ones that might be useful outside access/.
> I suppose another option is to put it in lib. The only things there
> right now are dllinfo.c and stringinfo.c, but in some ways generic
> in-memory red-black trees seem analagous to generic string buffers.
I could live with either lib or utils/misc/.
regards, tom lane
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