Re: Heikki Linnakangas 2014-04-28 <[email protected]> > >Comments? If there's anyone who has a really good use-case for using > >relpath() from outside the backend, better speak up. > > I'm using it in the pg_rewind tool. It needs to know how to map relfilenodes > to physical files. > > It has quite intimate knowledge of the on-disk layout anyway, so it wouldn't > be the end of the world to just copy-paste that code. But would rather not, > of course.
Isn't pg_rewind so low-level server-close that it needs tons of server headers anyway, including one that would still have relpath()? We are talking here about what headers pure client apps need. Christoph -- [email protected] | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
