I assume we never came to any conclusion on this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Magnus Hagander wrote: > 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 -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
