Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?

2016-12-19 Thread Andres Freund
On 2016-12-18 22:19:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund 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

Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?

2016-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 12/18/16 10:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: >> Shouldn't we just remove that code? > > What for? 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

Re: [HACKERS] Retire src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c ?

2016-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > Shouldn't we just remove that code? What for? 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