Re: initdb -S and tablespaces

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Ah, so that's not the duplicate code that I was remembering -- I think
>> it's walkdir() or something like that, which is in initdb IIRC.

> Yeah, walkdir() is there too.  But if we're going to add that to the
> backend, I think it should go in src/backend/storage/file, not
> src/backend/access/transam.

Agreed that .../transam is a pretty horrid choice; but maybe we should
be thinking about putting it in src/common, so there's only one copy?

As for the notion that this needs to be back-patched, I would say no.
        regards, tom lane