Re: catalog files simplification

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: catalog files simplification
Date: 2019-06-28 06:53:31
Message-ID: 3f5d6cd7-36ca-21f4-f373-94e5a3e58f7b@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-06-12 15:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> A bigger objection might be that this would leave us with no obvious-
> to-the-untrained-eye declaration point for either the struct name or
> the two typedef names. That might make tools like ctags sad. Perhaps
> it's not really any worse than today, but it bears investigation.

At least with GNU Global, it finds FormData_pg_foo but not Form_pg_foo.
But you can find the latter using grep. This patch would hide both of
those even from grep, so maybe it isn't a good idea then.

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