From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: split rm_name and rm_desc out of rmgr.c |
Date: | 2013-02-04 22:27:39 |
Message-ID: | 26774.1360016859@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> pg_xlogdump needs access to the *_desc functions for each rmgr. We
> already moved forward quite a bit by splitting those functions out of
> their containing files; so now they are compilable separately. Good.
> The remaining task is enabling the code to find those functions in the
> first place; currently, the function pointers live in rmgr.c which is
> not compilable by frontend code because it contains pointers to other
> functions. Hence the attached patch splits RmgrData into two; the names
> and rm_desc functions go into a new file which can be compiled easily by
> frontend.
> Proposed patch attached.
This seems pretty ugly to me.
Couldn't we do something similar to the design for SQL keyword constants,
wherein the actual data is in macros in a header file (providing exactly
one source of truth for each RM) and then various .c files can #include
that after #defining the macro as they need? See
src/include/parser/kwlist.h and the files that include that.
regards, tom lane
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