On 2020-03-31 08:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 05:00:01PM +0300, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
>> What do think about adding following sanity check into xlogarchive.c?
>>
>> +#ifdef FRONTEND
>> +#error "This file is not expected to be compiled for frontend code"
>> +#endif
>>
>> It would prevent someone from adding typedefs and any other common
>> definitions into xlogarchive.h in the future, leading to the accidental
>> inclusion of both xlogarchive.h and fe_archive.h in the same time.
> I don't see much the point as this would fail to compile anyway, and
> that's not project-style. Note that we have already a clear
> separation here between the backend and the frontend code here as
> xlogarchive.h is backend-only and fe_archive.h is frontend-only.
Why is fe_archive.c in src/common/ and not in src/fe_utils/? It is not
"common" to frontend and backend.
It actually defines functions that clash with functions in the backend,
so this seems doubly wrong.
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