Re: pg_ls_tmpdir to show directories and shared filesets (and pg_ls_*)

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> >> I took a quick look through this.  This is just MHO, of course:
> >>
> >> * I don't think it's okay to change the existing signatures of
> >> pg_ls_logdir() et al.
>
> > I disagree that we need to stress over this- we pretty routinely change
> > the signature of various catalogs and functions and anyone using these
> > is already of the understanding that we are free to make such changes
> > between major versions.
>
> Well, like I said, just MHO.  Anybody else want to weigh in?
>
> I'm mostly concerned about removing the isdir output of pg_stat_file().
> Maybe we could compromise to the extent of keeping that, allowing it
> to be partially duplicative of a file-type-code output column.

I don't have any particular issue with keeping isdir as a convenience
column.  I agree it'll now be a bit duplicative but that seems alright.

Thanks,

Stephen