| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] freefuncs.c is never called from anywhere!? |
| Date: | 2000-02-01 01:58:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200002010158.UAA21631@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I think it would be a bad idea to go around and yank out NOT_USED code
> wholesale --- this should be looked at on a case-by-case basis, with
> consideration of whether the code might be useful again in future.
>
> But I think I might vote for pruning the _deadcode directories
> wholesale. I suspect the files in them are suffering from
> irrecoverable bit rot.
I disagree on _deadcode. While the code is rotted, it does implement
some full functions that have no other history, like verion.c for
versioning and xfunc for expensive functions. Yanking them means we can
never know what they did.
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