Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Why are these very tar-specific functions being declared in such a
>> globally visible spot as port.h? That seems like a bad idea on its
>> face. IMO stuff in port.h ought to be about as globally applicable
>> as, say, malloc().
> It's where we put most of the things from src/port in.
Might be time to revisit that, or perhaps better reconsider what we're
putting in src/port/. The idea that anything that we want in both
frontend and backend is a porting issue seems a bit busted in itself.
> I take it you suggest moving it to a special say include/pgtar.h file?
Works for me.
regards, tom lane
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