On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 19, 2012 07:18:08 PM Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
>> I agree with that we need more sophisticated way to share the code
>> between the backend and several utilities (including xlogdump),
>> but AFAIK, a contrib module must allow to be built *without* the core
>> source tree.
> I don't think thats reasonable. The amount of code duplication required to
> support that usecase is just not reasonable. Especially if you want to support
> pre 9.3 and 9.3+.
It seems like the direction this is going is that the xlog reading
stuff should be a library which is used by both the backend and 1 or
more xlog decoding tools.
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