Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Seems like a job for a new(?) module in src/common/.
> Yeah, that would be nice... Even nicer would be a way for non-core PG
> tools to be able to use it (we have basically the same thing in
> pgbackrest, unsurprisingly), though I realize that's a much larger step.
We install libpgcommon.a (and, as of HEAD, libpgcommon_shlib.a) for
precisely that sort of reason.
regards, tom lane