On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> In general, I think there is no excuse for code in the backend to use
> readdir() directly; it should be using ReadDir(), which takes care of this
> as well as error reporting.
My understanding is that the fd.c infrastructure can't be used in the
postmaster.
I agree that sucks.
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