Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 11:48 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > Yeah I suggested dynamic registration to avoid the problem that eg
> > src/backend/storage/sync.c otherwise needs to forward declare
> > md_tagtopath(), undofile_tagtopath(), slru_tagtopath(), ..., or maybe
> > #include <storage/md.h> etc, which seemed like exactly the sort of
> > thing up with which you would not put.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. If we have a few known tag types, what's the
> problem with including the headers with knowledge of how to implement
> them into sync.c file?

Typo in my previous email: src/backend/storage/file/sync.c was my
proposal for the translation unit holding this stuff (we don't have .c
files directly under storage). But it didn't seem right that stuff
under storage/file (things concerned with files) should know about
stuff under storage/smgr (md.c functions, higher level smgr stuff).
Perhaps that just means it should go into a different subdir, maybe
src/backend/storage/sync/sync.c, that knows about files AND smgr
stuff, or perhaps I'm worrying about nothing.

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