On 2016-12-18 22:19:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > Shouldn't we just remove that code? > > What for?
I every now and then end up looking at it for a few minutes, and wonder what the hell dld is, just to see that it's old stuff. > It's maintenance-free ... hasn't been touched since 2004. > While I agree with you that it's *probably* dead code, it's hard to > see much upside from removing it. > > If we want to get into arguing whether code is dead or not, there's > an awful lot of potentially removable stuff in the tree, but I doubt > it's worth the trouble to figure out what's really dead. Well, it's sometimes annoying to hit the code while looking around that's actually dead. But I don't feel that strongly. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
