Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
maxpg> From: Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de>
> relpathbackend() (via some of its wrappers) is used in *_desc routines which
> we
> want to be useable without a backend environment arround.
I'm 100% unimpressed with making relpathbackend return a pointer to a
static buffer. Who's to say whether that won't create bugs due to
overlapping usages?
> Change signature to return a 'const char *' to make misuse easier to
> detect.
That seems to create way more churn than is necessary, and it's wrong
anyway if the result is palloc'd.
regards, tom lane
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