On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> >> Also, it seems awfully unfortunate to me that we're duplicating a
>> >> whole pile of code into xlog.c here.  Maybe there's no way to avoid
>> >> the code duplication, but pre_sync_fname() seems like it'd more
>> >> naturally go in fd.c than here.  I dunno where walkdir should go, but
>> >> again, not in xlog.c.
>> >
>> > Hm, there's an interest in backpatching this as a bugfix, if I
>> > understand correctly; hence the duplicated code.  We could remove the
>> > duplicity later with a refactoring patch in master only.
>>
>> That seems pretty silly.  If we going to add pre_sync_fname() to every
>> branch, we should add it to the same (correct) file in all of them,
>> not put it in xlog.c in the back-branches and fd.c in master.
>
> Ah, so that's not the duplicate code that I was remembering -- I think
> it's walkdir() or something like that, which is in initdb IIRC.

Yeah, walkdir() is there too.  But if we're going to add that to the
backend, I think it should go in src/backend/storage/file, not
src/backend/access/transam.

-- 
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