Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Comments like that are fragile (elog.c could change, for example), and
> > > basically content-free anyway, IMHO. If you need to make SysLoggerPID
> > > part of postmaster.c's external API, why not just do that, remove the
> > > comment, and add the extern declaration to postmaster.h?
> > 
> > The counterargument is that he avoided exporting SysLoggerPID to
> > anything except elog.c.  If it's in postmaster.h then who knows what
> > will start depending on it?  But I see Neil's point too; this coding
> > is definitely a bit fragile.
> 
> That was my argument for doing it the way I did. I'll change it if you
> want me to, of course :-) I can see both arguments, but can't quite
> decide which wins...

I add it so the commit message on HEAD also shows the back branchs.  It
makes it easier when creating the major release notes whether the patch
has already appeared in a back branch, and hence shouldn't be mentioned.

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