Skip unnecessary stat() calls in walkdir().

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: 861c6e7c8e4dfdd842442dde47cc653764baff4f
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-07T06:28:06Z
Releases: 14.0
Skip unnecessary stat() calls in walkdir().

Some kernels can tell us the type of a "dirent", so we can avoid a call
to stat() or lstat() in many cases.  Define a new function
get_dirent_type() to contain that logic, for use by the backend and
frontend versions of walkdir(), and perhaps other callers in future.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BFzxupGGN4GpUdbzZN%2Btn6FQPHo8w0Q%2BAPH5Wz8RG%2Bww%40mail.gmail.com

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PathChange+/−
src/backend/storage/file/fd.c modified +16 −17
src/common/file_utils.c modified +91 −18
src/common/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/include/common/file_utils.h modified +18 −2
src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm modified +2 −2
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list modified +1 −0

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