Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié may 26 07:20:30 -0400 2010:
> I still feel that we'd be better off putting all the functions that
> use the same design pattern in a single file, rather than spreading
> them out all over the backend. It's true that that one file will then
> depend on all the catalog stuff, but it actually can limit
> dependencies a little bit on the other end, because if someone wants
> to call a bunch of these functions from the same file, they only need
> to include the one header where they are all declared, rather than all
> the individual files that contain the individual functions.
This doesn't buy you anything, because that one header will likely have
to #include all the other headers anyway. And if this is so, then all
those headers will now be included in all files that require even a
single one of these functions.
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