Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>> Answering myself here: the filesize for the "frontend only" part is
>>> about 2k on this system.
>
>> Long meeting, time for coding.. :-) Here's a rough patch. Is this about
>> what you had in mind?
>
> Hm, this seems to make the namespace pollution problem worse not better,
> because of de-staticizing so many functions. I guess we could stick pg_
> prefixes on all of them. That's a bit ugly; anybody have a better idea?
Not really.
> It might be that it'd be better to push a couple more of the simple
> path-munging functions (like join_path_components) over into the new
> file, so as to have a more logical division of responsibilities.
> In my mind the two key areas here are "path syntax knowledge" and
> "extracting absolute paths from environmental information". The second
> part seems to be the one that doesn't belong on the frontend side.
What would be the gain there? To be able to re-static-ify for example
skip_drive? Or just a nicer division?
We should probably also consider moving get_home_path() over to the
frontend one, and get rid of the copy that's in fe-connect.c.
//Magnus